What Does 1 Corinthians 15:30 Mean in the King James?

And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:30 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The question turns danger from a single crisis into an ongoing condition: every hour.

THE MEANING

The question speaks from inside a claim with real bodily stakes: danger keeps returning through the day. It does not explain the risk away or reduce it to an idea; it leaves the reader with the unanswered “why” at the center of exposed life.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the assumption that a true or meaningful conviction keeps the body beyond danger; the verse lets the risk itself remain real.

THE ROOT

κινδυνεύομεν

kindyneuomen

GROWS FROM

κινδυνεύω

kindyneuō

to be in danger, to incur risk

“jeopardy” in this verse is kindyneuomen. The Greek gathers the clause into one present verb: “we are in danger.” Its word family also names a trade at risk in Acts 19:27, showing that danger here is concrete exposure, not merely an inner feeling.

ALSO GROWS

kindynos: danger, risk

κίνδυνος

The related noun names the danger itself, making clear that the verse speaks of real exposure.

kindyneuō: to be in danger, to risk

κινδυνεύω

The verb describes an ongoing state, which fits the verse’s question about danger recurring hour after hour.

ὥραν

hōran

GROWS FROM

ὥρα

hōra

hour, time, or season

“hour” in this verse is hōran. Together with “every,” the word stretches the danger across the whole day rather than locating it in one crisis. The same word can mean a season, letting the phrase carry the sense of risk filling an entire span of time.

ALSO GROWS

hōra: hour, time, season

ὥρα

Its range makes the measure of danger temporal and sustained, not a single moment.

hōraios: timely, in season

ὡραῖος

This related word carries the sense of a season, echoing how the verse measures exposure across time.

THE PATTERN

Scripture repeatedly describes witness as lived amid bodily danger that can extend through the day and across many settings.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Psalm 44:22 · KJVThe danger is described as lasting through the whole day, matching the verse’s “every hour.”

In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

2 Corinthians 11:26 · KJVRisk appears as a repeated reality across the many places and circumstances of a life.

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Philippians 1:29 · KJVThe verse places belief and suffering in the same lived experience, where conviction carries real cost.

THE THREAD

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

Acts 19:27 · KJV

Both verses use ⁨κινδυνεύω⁩ (kindyneuō), the same verb for being in danger. Here the danger reaches a livelihood, showing how the shared word ties risk to the material structures a life depends on.

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