1 Corinthians 15:30 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:30

Why stand we in jeopardy every hour? The verb means "Why do we incur peril?" The best comment on it will be found in 2 Corinthians 11:26 . Cicero says ('Tusc. Disp.,' 2 Corinthians 1:15 ) that "no one would be so mad as to live in labour and perils if our instinctive anticipation of future life were taken away." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:30-31

Daily dying. "Why stand we," etc.? The apostles, in their efforts to extend the gospel, endured great afflictions and involved themselves in terrific perils, and if there be no future life, Paul asks, why should they have done so? "Why stand we in jeopardy every hour?" Why should we thus "die daily"? But there is a daily dying in the case of every man. I. There is a daily dying that is INEVITABLE to humanity. 1. There is a daily dying of our corporeal frame. In each human body... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:30

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... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:29-30

1 Corinthians 15:29-30. Else, or otherwise, what shall they do What will become of them? what shall they do to repair their loss, who are exposed to great sufferings in consequence of being baptized for the dead That is, say some, “In token of their embracing the Christian faith in the room of the dead, who are just fallen in the cause of Christ, but are yet supported by a succession of new converts, who immediately offer themselves to fill up their places, as ranks of soldiers that... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:29-34

A source of encouragement (15:29-34)It seems that another strange practice the church in Corinth had introduced was that of baptizing people on behalf of those who had died unbaptized. Paul does not stop to discuss whether this was a desirable practice; he simply asks what meaning can it have if there is no future resurrection? If people do not believe in the resurrection but practise baptism for the dead, they are demonstrating something they do not believe in (29).There are no doubts about... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 15:30

stand . . . in jeopardy . See Acts 19:27 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:30

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?If the apostles had not been extremely sure of the resurrection, why would any of them have endured such hardship and sufferings, even unto death? This argument is unanswerable. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:30

30. we—apostles (1 Corinthians 15:9; 1 Corinthians 4:9). A gradation from those who could only for a little time enjoy this life (that is, those baptized at the point of death), to us, who could enjoy it longer, if we had not renounced the world for Christ [BENGEL]. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

2. The certainty of resurrection 15:12-34In the preceding paragraph Paul firmly established that the gospel the Corinthians had believed contained the fact that God had raised Jesus Christ bodily, along with other equally crucial facts. Next he proceeded to show the consequences of rejecting belief in the resurrection of the body."Paul uses reductio ad absurdum: if there is no resurrection (i.e., of believers in the future), then Jesus did not rise (1 Corinthians 15:12-13), a point on which he... read more