[HarleyD]

All western Bibles say: "and if I surrender my body to be burned..." This appears in the Greek Majority Text and subsequently ends up in Textus Receptus, and from there on in just about every western Bible. Older Greek texts use a word that differs only by one letter, and means "to boast" rather than to "be burned."

So the text should read, "and if I surrender my body to be boast"???? No wonder Peter said some of Paul's writings were difficult to understand.

[kosta50]

So the text should read, "and if I surrender my body to be boast"????

No, the Greek text says:

If I give away all my possessions and hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing

In context, there is no reason to have his body burned! But if he surrenders his body [to Christ], so that he can boast about being faithful, it is empty.