1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13:3

:TEXT: “if I deliver up my body so that I may boast”

p46 S A B 048 33 1739* cop

KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “if I deliver up my body to be burned”

C D F G \ L \ 81 104 \ 630 \ 1881* \ 2495 \ Lect lat vg syr(p,h)

ASVn RSVn NASVn NIVn NEBn TEVnCOMMENTS: There are only two letters’ difference between the two readings. The evidence in braces uses the rare future subjunctive which is only one letter different from the text reading. On the one hand it is possible that copyists who could not understand how an act of self-sacrifice such as giving up one’s body to be burned could be rejected by God, supplied one by changing “burned” to “boast.” On the other hand, it is also possible that when death by burning became a common form of persecution, the change of one or two letters to read “be burned” was easy for copyists to make.