1 Corinthians 9:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδενὶ ἐχρησάμην τούτων: οὐκ ἔγραψα δὲ ταῦτα, ἵνα οὕτως γένηται ἐν ἐμοί: καλὸν γάρ μοι μᾶλλον ἀποθανεῖν, ἤ τὸ καύχημά μου ἵνα τις κενώσῃ.

Transliteration

I but none echrēsamēn of these things: not egrapsa but these things, that thus it might genētai in me: kalon for to me rather to apothanein, than the kauchēma of me that anyone should kenōsē.

Grammar Details

• *echrēsamēn*: aorist middle, 1st person singular - used/made use of
• *egrapsa*: aorist active, 1st person singular - wrote
• *genētai*: aorist subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might be/happen
• *kalon*: nominative, neuter, singular - good/better
• *apothanein*: aorist infinitive - to die
• *kauchēma*: accusative, neuter, singular - boasting/ground for boasting
• *kenōsē*: aorist subjunctive, 3rd person singular - should make empty/void

Word Meanings

• *echrēsamēn*: used/made use of/availed myself of
• *egrapsa*: wrote/have written
• *genētai*: might be/might happen/should occur
• *kalon*: good/better/preferable
• *apothanein*: to die/to perish
• *kauchēma*: boasting/ground for boasting/what I boast in
• *kenōsē*: make empty/void/nullify

Referenced Verses

• Acts 18:3 : 3 and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought, for by their trade they were tentmakers.
• 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself]. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein {G1722} they glory, they may be found even as we.
• Matt 18:6 : 6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and [that] he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.
• Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
• Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
• Acts 20:34 : 34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
• 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
• Phil 1:20-23 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if to live in the [flesh,—] [if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. 23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
• 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: {G1063} working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:
• 2 Cor 12:13-18 : 13 For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? 16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you? 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did {G5100} Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?