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# these rights
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"these things that I deserve"
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# so something might be done for me
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "so you will do something for me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# It would be better for me to die than—No one will make my boast empty!
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Paul seems to have started a new sentence before finishing the first one. Some modern translations read, "It would be better for me to die than to have someone deprive me of this boast."
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# It would be better for me to
"I would rather." Paul is speaking of what he desires, not necessarily of what God thinks is best.
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# make my boast empty
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"take away this opportunity I have to boast" or "make it so I have nothing to boast about"
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