124 Claude Perera names five predominant gifts of the charismatic community at Corinth namely, speaking in tongues, prophecy, understanding of all mysteries, knowledge and faith. He concludes this list in the hyperbolic expression, “… but have no love, I gain nothing.” He relativizes their charisms and insists that they got to be exercised in a context of love. The moment the charisms become detrimental to love, they lose their worth. Referring to this alienation of charisms from love, Carson rightly says, “…in this divine mathematics, five minus one equals zero37”. Now let us summarize what we have seen in this study. The examina- tion of external evidence propelled us to sound the death knell to the variants καυθ / and καυθ σεται that had the least support and we were left with καυχ σωμαι, καυθ σομαι, and καυθ σωμαι. As regards the transcriptional probability, first of all we eliminated the third an fourth variants we saw in this section that καυθ and καυθ σεται as resulting from scribal errors and thus, we excluded them. Secondly, the first vari- ant καυθ σωμαι seemed to have resulted from theologically motivated scribal interventions. Had it been the original, there would have been no need for it to be replaced by the older reading καυθ σομαι. As regards the intrinsic probability, we saw first that the variant καυθ σωμαι involved a syntactic problem further disqualifying it to be a candidate. Secondly, although καυθ σομαι was proposed to have favoured the martyrdom hypothesis, historical facts prevent us from arriving at such a conclusion. The attempt to interpret καυθ σομαι as a reference to the branding of slaves by fire was also unsuccessful. On the other hand, we saw also that a syntagmatic approach to the problem did not help us to decide in favour of either alternative. However, from the point of Pauline vocabulary, boasting was seen to be ambivalent. The only form of boasting Paul justi- fied was that in the Lord. Here in 1 Cor 13:3 it was such an instance of boasting in the Lord. Petzer’s argument justifying καυχ σωμαι further confirmed our stance on the same. In the light of all above observations, on textual, grammatical and historical grounds it is difficult to explain 37 D.A. Carson, Showing the Spirit (Carlisle 1995) 60 as quoted by Gatiss, “Love is the Greatest Thing …”