1 Corintios 15:31

31 Pues juro, amados hermanos, que todos los días enfrento la muerte. Esto es tan cierto como el orgullo que siento por lo que Cristo Jesús nuestro Señor ha hecho en ustedes.

1 Corintios 15:31 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:31

I protest by your rejoicing
Some copies read, "our rejoicing"; and so the Ethiopic version, which seems most natural and easy; since it follows,

which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord;
who in him could rejoice and glory in afflictions and sufferings, which he endured as a preacher of the Gospel for his sake; and which being certain and evident, and what might be depended upon, he makes a protestation by it, saying,

I die daily;
which is to be understood, not in a spiritual sense of dying unto sin; he was dead unto sin, as to its damning power, through the death of Christ, and as to its governing power, through the Spirit and grace of Christ, but still it was living and dwelling in him; but in a corporeal sense: he instances in himself in particular, who was one that was in jeopardy or danger of his life every hour; he always bore in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus, and was continually delivered to death for Jesus' sake; death was always working in him, he expected it every day, and was ready for it; he did not count his life dear unto himself, but was very willing to lay it down for the sake of Christ and his Gospel; which he would never have done, if he had not good reason to believe the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.

1 Corintios 15:31 In-Context

29 Si los muertos no serán resucitados, ¿para qué se bautiza la gente por los que están muertos? ¿Para qué hacerlo a menos que los muertos algún día resuciten?

30 ¿Y para qué nosotros a todas horas pondríamos en peligro nuestra vida?

31 Pues juro, amados hermanos, que todos los días enfrento la muerte. Esto es tan cierto como el orgullo que siento por lo que Cristo Jesús nuestro Señor ha hecho en ustedes.

32 ¿Y qué valor hubo en luchar contra las fieras salvajes —esa gente de Éfeso—
si no habrá resurrección de los muertos? Y si no hay resurrección, «¡comamos y bebamos, que mañana moriremos!»
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33 No se dejen engañar por los que dicen semejantes cosas, porque «las malas compañías corrompen el buen carácter».