Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Bestow to feed (Ywmisw). First aorist active subjunctive of ywmizw, to feed, to nourish, from ywmov, morsel or bit, and so to feed, by putting a morsel into the mouth like infant (or bird). Old word, but only here in N.T.
To be burned (ina kauqhswmai). First future passive subjunctive (Textus Receptus), but D kauqhsomai (future passive indicative of kaiw, old word to burn). There were even some who courted martyrdom in later years (time of Diocletian). This Byzantine future subjunctive does not occur in the old MSS. (Robertson, Grammar, p. 876). Aleph A B here read kauxhswmai, first aorist middle subjunctive of kauxaomai (so Westcott and Hort), "that I may glory." This is correct.
It profiteth me nothing (ouden wfeloumai). Literally, I am helped nothing. Ouden in the accusative case retained with passive verb. See two accusatives with wfelew in I Corinthians 14:6. Verb is old and from ofelov (profit).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 13:3:
Romans 12:20
1 Corinthians 14:6
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