1 Corinthians 15:31

ὑμετέραν אBDEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. Peshito. ἡμετέραν rec. with A.

ἀδελφοί אAB Vulg. Peshito. Rec. om. with DEFG Vetus Lat.

31. καθ' ἡμέραν�. I am daily dying. Cf. Romans 6:3-4; Romans 6:11; Romans 7:24; Romans 8:13; Romans 8:36; 2 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 4:10-12; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 5:24; Colossians 2:20; Colossians 3:3; Colossians 3:5. The death of Christ was a death to sin, a death which must be imitated in His disciples by their putting all the sinful affections of their bodies to a lingering death. But such a task they would never be likely to undertake, but for the prospect of a Resurrection.

νὴ τὴν ὑμετέραν καύχησιν. καύχησις is the act of rejoicing, καύχημα that of which we boast, or the boast itself. Here we may either (1) take ὑμετέραν your rejoicing concerning me, in which case ἣν ἔχω must relate to the community of life and feeling there is among Christians (cf. 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 3:3), or (2) my rejoicing concerning you. See Winer, Pt III. § 22, 7, and cf. ch. 1 Corinthians 11:20. The latter is preferable. For St Paul not only adds ἣν ἔχω, which would naturally imply that the rejoicing was his, but it was to this daily dying that he attributes his success in founding the Corinthian Church, a legitimate ground, as he repeatedly said, for boasting. See ch. 1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Corinthians 9:2; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 4:5-15; 2 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 10:13-18; 2 Corinthians 11:18 to 2 Corinthians 12:12.