1 Corinthians 15:30 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)30 Why do we also risk danger every hour [i.e., if there were no resurrection]? Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 176930 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition30 [For that matter], why do I live [dangerously as I do, running such risks that I am] in peril every hour? Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)30 why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible30 And what about us? Why are we in danger all day every day? Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version30 Why also do we endure trials every hour? Ver Capítulo |
But, brothers, if I were still preaching [that a person had] to be circumcised, why am I being persecuted? [Note: Paul’s argument seems to be “I must not be preaching circumcision since I am being persecuted by those who believe in it”]. [If I preached that a person had to be circumcised] then my preaching that Christ died on the cross would not be such an offense [to those who believe in it].
Otherwise [i.e., if there were no resurrection], what do people accomplish by being immersed for those who have [already] died? If dead people are not raised up at all, why then are people immersed on their behalf? [Note: The foregoing rendition is the most commonly held one of over 30 interpretations given to this very difficult verse. Other possibilities are: a) “immersed in view of (being raised from) the dead,” b) “immersed in view of being dead (to sin),” c) “immersed in view of (having to suffer) death,” d) “immersed in view of (someday joining) the dead”].