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Simplified Cowboy Version

1 Corinthians 15:30

And what can we say about ourselves? We ride treacherous country trying to save the lost. Why would we risk our lives for nothing?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Body;   Immortality;   Resurrection;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Resurrection;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead, the;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Death;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Immortality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Annihilation;   Omnipotence of God;   Resurrection;   Resurrection of Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adam;   Sin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adam (1);   Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Philippians;   Resurrection of Jesus Christ;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Eschatology;   Ethics;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gospel (2);   Silas or Silyanus;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Baptism for the Dead;   Jeopard;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Why are we in danger every hour?
King James Version (1611)
And why stand we in ieopardy euery houre?
King James Version
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
English Standard Version
Why are we in danger every hour?
New American Standard Bible
Why are we also in danger every hour?
New Century Version
And what about us? Why do we put ourselves in danger every hour?
Amplified Bible
[For that matter] why are we [running such risks and putting ourselves] in danger [nearly] every hour [if there is no resurrection]?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Why are we also in danger every hour?
Legacy Standard Bible
Why are we also in danger every hour?
Berean Standard Bible
And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
Contemporary English Version
And why do we always risk our lives
Complete Jewish Bible
For that matter, we ourselves — why do we keep facing danger hour by hour?
Darby Translation
Why do *we* also endanger ourselves every hour?
Easy-to-Read Version
And what about us? Why do we put ourselves in danger every hour?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Why are wee also in ieopardie euery houre?
George Lamsa Translation
And why do we continue to stand in danger every hour?
Good News Translation
And as for us—why would we run the risk of danger every hour?
Lexham English Bible
And why are we in danger every hour?
Literal Translation
Why are we also in danger every hour?
American Standard Version
why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
Bible in Basic English
And why are we in danger every hour?
Hebrew Names Version
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
International Standard Version
And why in fact are we being endangered every hour?2 Corinthians 11:26; Galatians 5:11;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And why also every hour are we standing in peril ?
Murdock Translation
And why also do we stand every hour in peril?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Why are they then baptized for them? And why stande we in ieopardie euery houre?
English Revised Version
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
World English Bible
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Why are we also in danger every hour? I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Weymouth's New Testament
Why also do we Apostles expose ourselves to danger every hour?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And wherto ben we in perel euery our?
Update Bible Version
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
Webster's Bible Translation
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
New English Translation
Why too are we in danger every hour?
New King James Version
And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?
New Living Translation
And why should we ourselves risk our lives hour by hour?
New Life Bible
Why are we also in danger every hour?
New Revised Standard
And why are we putting ourselves in danger every hour?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Why also are, we, running into peril every hour?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Why also are we in danger every hour?
Revised Standard Version
Why am I in peril every hour?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ye and why stonde we in ieoperdy every houre?
Young's Literal Translation
why also do we stand in peril every hour?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And why stonde we in ioperdy euery houre?
Mace New Testament (1729)
and why do we continually expose our lives to danger?
THE MESSAGE
And why do you think I keep risking my neck in this dangerous work? I look death in the face practically every day I live. Do you think I'd do this if I wasn't convinced of your resurrection and mine as guaranteed by the resurrected Messiah Jesus? Do you think I was just trying to act heroic when I fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, hoping it wouldn't be the end of me? Not on your life! It's resurrection, resurrection, always resurrection, that undergirds what I do and say, the way I live. If there's no resurrection, "We eat, we drink, the next day we die," and that's all there is to it. But don't fool yourselves. Don't let yourselves be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk. "Bad company ruins good manners."

Contextual Overview

20But Christ did ride back from the grave. He was the first and the rest of his cowboys will follow. 21Through a single man, death came for us all. Likewise, through a single man, life is available for all. 22I'm talking about how sin entered the world through Adam, and now, eternal life is waiting on us all through Jesus Christ. 23But we ain't gettin' in ahead of the boss. Jesus was brought back to life first. Then, when he comes back to get us, those who've ridden for him will be raised to life again as well. 24That's when everything as we know it will end. The prescribed burn will destroy all earthly rulers, governments, and powers. Then, Jesus is going to give the keys of the ranch to God the Father. 25Christ will rule until all his enemies have been crushed. 26The last enemy to fall will be death. 27Like the Good Book says, "God has given him control over everything." When it says "everything" is under his control, it goes without saying that Jesus does not control God. God is the one giving Jesus the authority. 28When Jesus has conquered everything, he is going to turn around and hand everything over to God so that God will be the one and only ruler. 29If there is no hope for coming back from the dead, why then do some people go as far as trying to be baptized for those who have already died? Without hope, everything is in vain.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:31, Romans 8:36-39, 2 Corinthians 4:7-12, 2 Corinthians 6:9, 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, Galatians 5:11

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:3 - but a step 2 Samuel 23:17 - jeopardy 1 Chronicles 11:19 - in jeopardy Psalms 44:22 - killed Luke 9:23 - daily Acts 15:26 - hazarded 1 Corinthians 4:9 - I Philippians 1:30 - the same

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?] Not only they that have suffered martyrdom for the faith of Christ, and for this article of it, have acted very injudiciously and indiscreetly; but we, also, who are on the spot, whether ministers or private Christians, must be highly blameworthy, who continually expose ourselves to dangers, and are for Christ's sake killed all the day long, are every moment liable to innumerable injuries, tortures and death; who in his senses would act such a part, if there is no resurrection of the dead? such, as they must be of all men the most miserable, so of all men the most stupid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And why stand we in jeopardy - Why do we constantly risk our lives, and encounter danger of every kind? This refers particularly to Paul himself and the other apostles, who were constantly exposed to peril by land or by sea in the arduous work of making known the gospel. The argument here is plain. It is, that such efforts would be vain, useless, foolish, unless there was to be a glorious resurrection. They had no other object in encountering these dangers than to make known the truths connected with that glorious future state; and if there were no such future state, it would be wise for them to avoid these dangers. “It would not be supposed that we would encounter these perils constantly, unless we were sustained with the hope of the resurrection, and unless we had evidence which convinced our own minds that there would be such a resurrection.”

Every hour - Constantly; compare 2 Corinthians 11:26. So numerous were their dangers, that they might be said to occur every hour. This was particularly the case in the instance to which he refers in Ephesus, 1 Corinthians 15:32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? — Is there any reason why we should voluntarily submit to so many sufferings, and every hour be in danger of losing our lives, if the dead rise not? On the conviction of the possibility and certainty of the resurrection, we are thus baptized for the dead. We have counted the cost, despise sufferings, and exult at the prospect of death, because we know we shall have a resurrection unto eternal life.


 
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