1 Corinthians 15:35

Amplified Bible

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body will they come?"

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have?"

Revised Standard Version
But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But some ma will saye: how aryse ye deed? with what bodyes come they in?

Hebrew Names Version
But some one will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

International Standard Version
But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?"Ezekiel 37:3;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"

New Century Version
But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have?"

Update Bible Version
But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

Webster's Bible Translation
But some [man] will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

English Standard Version
But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

World English Bible
But some one will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But some one will say, How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come?

Weymouth's New Testament
But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But summan seith, Hou schulen deed men rise ayen, or in what maner bodi schulen thei come?

English Revised Version
But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

Berean Standard Bible
But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"

Contemporary English Version
Some of you have asked, "How will the dead be raised to life? What kind of bodies will they have?"

American Standard Version
But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

Bible in Basic English
But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

Complete Jewish Bible
But someone will ask, "In what manner are the dead raised? What sort of body do they have?"

Darby Translation
But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

Etheridge Translation
Some one of you will say, How arise the dead, and with what body come they ?

Murdock Translation
But some one of you may say: How will the dead arise? and with what body will they come forth?

King James Version (1611)
But some man will say, How are the dead raysed vp? and with what body doe they come?

New Living Translation
But someone may ask, "How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?"

New Life Bible
Someone will say, "How are the dead raised? What kind of bodies will they have?"

New Revised Standard
But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
But some man will say, Howe are the dead raised vp? and with what body come they foorth?

George Lamsa Translation
But some of you will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But some one will say - How, are the dead raised? and, with what kind of body, do they come?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what manner of body shall they come?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But some man wyll say, howe are the dead raysed vp? With what bodie shall they come?

Good News Translation
Someone will ask, "How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?"

Christian Standard Bible®
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”

King James Version
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

Lexham English Bible
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"

Literal Translation
But someone will say, How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come?

Young's Literal Translation
But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But some man mighte saye: How shal the deed aryse? And with what maner off body shal they come?

Mace New Testament (1729)
But some will say, how will the dead be raised? with what kind of body will they appear?

THE MESSAGE
Some skeptic is sure to ask, "Show me how resurrection works. Give me a diagram; draw me a picture. What does this ‘resurrection body' look like?" If you look at this question closely, you realize how absurd it is. There are no diagrams for this kind of thing. We do have a parallel experience in gardening. You plant a "dead" seed; soon there is a flourishing plant. There is no visual likeness between seed and plant. You could never guess what a tomato would look like by looking at a tomato seed. What we plant in the soil and what grows out of it don't look anything alike. The dead body that we bury in the ground and the resurrection body that comes from it will be dramatically different.

New English Translation
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"

New King James Version
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Some have wondered, "How are we brought back from the grave? What will our bodies look like?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"

Legacy Standard Bible
But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"

Contextual Overview

³⁵But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body will they come?"³⁶You fool! Every time you plant seed you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up and growing] unless it first dies. ³⁷The seed you sow is not the body (the plant) which it is going to become, but it is a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other grain. ³⁸But God gives it a body just as He planned, and to each kind of seed a body of its own [is given]. ³⁹All flesh is not the same. There is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. ⁴⁰There are also heavenly bodies [sun, moon and stars] and earthly bodies [humans, animals, and plants], but the glory and beauty of the heavenly is one kind, and the glory of the earthly is another. ⁴¹There is a glory and beauty of the sun, another glory of the moon, and yet another [distinctive] glory of the stars; and one star differs from another in glory and brilliance. ⁴²So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The [human] body that is sown is perishable and mortal, it is raised imperishable and immortal. ⁴³It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength; ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body [mortal, suited to earth], it is raised a spiritual body [immortal, suited to heaven]. As surely as there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How: Job 11:12, Job 22:13, Psalms 73:11, Ecclesiastes 11:5, Ezekiel 37:3, Ezekiel 37:11, John 3:4, John 3:9, John 9:10

with: 1 Corinthians 15:38-53, Matthew 22:29, Matthew 22:30, Philippians 3:21

Reciprocal: Romans 9:19 - Thou Colossians 2:8 - philosophy James 2:20 - O vain

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But some man will say,.... Or "some one of you", as the Syriac and Arabic versions read; for there were some among them members of this church, that denied the resurrection of the dead, 1 Corinthians 15:12 a weak believer indeed may be designed, one of the babes in Christ in this church, that could not digest such strong meat, but had some doubt and difficulties in his mind about this point, though he did not absolutely deny it: but by the manner in which the objections and queries are put, and the sharpness in which the apostle answers them, it looks rather that an infidel as to this doctrine is intended, one of those Epicureans, who said, 1 Corinthians 15:32 "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die"; or some Heathen philosopher, a mere natural man, that rejected this doctrine because not agreeable to his carnal reason, and laughed at it as monstrous and ridiculous:

how are the dead raised up? This query is put, not as though the person merely hesitated, and was in some suspense about this matter, or with a desire to be informed; but as denying the thing, and as objecting to it as a thing impossible, and impracticable; suggesting it could not be, it was a thing incredible that those dead bodies which have been laid in the earth for so many hundred, and some, thousands of years, and have been long ago reduced to dust, and this dust has undergone a thousand forms; that such whose bodies have been burnt to ashes, or destroyed by wild beasts, and digested by them, should ever be raised again. Such a doctrine must be past all belief:

and with what body do they come? out of their graves, as you say, and appear on the earth at the last day: will they come forth with the same bodies, or with other? with earthly or heavenly ones? mortal or immortal? with bodies different from one another, and from what they now are?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But some man will say - An objection will be made to the statement that the dead will be raised. This verse commences the second part of the chapter, in which the apostle meets the objections to the argument. and shows in what manner the dead will be raised. See the Analysis. That objections were made to the doctrine is apparent from 1 Corinthians 15:12.

How are the dead raised up? - (Πῶς Pōs.) In what way or manner; by what means. This I regard as the first objection which would be made, or the first inquiry on the subject which the apostle answers. The question is one which would be likely to be made by the subtle and doubting Greeks. The apostle, indeed, does not draw it out at length, or state it fully, but it may be regarded probably as substantially the same as that which has been made in all ages. “How is it possible that the dead should be raised? They return to their native dust. They become entirely disorganized. Their dust may be scattered; how shall it be re-collected? Or they may be burned at the stake, and how shall the particles which composed their bodies be recollected and re-organized? Or they may be devoured by the beasts of the field, the fowls of heaven, or the fishes of the sea, and their flesh may have served to constitute the food of other animals, and to form their bodies; how can it be re-collected and re-organized? Or it may have been the food of plants, and like other dust have been used to constitute the leaves or the flowers of plants, and the trunks of trees; and how can it be remoulded into a human frame?” This objection the apostle answers in 1 Corinthians 15:36-38.

And with what body do they come? - This is the second objection or inquiry which he answers. It may be understood as meaning, “What will be the form, the shape, the size, the organization of the new body? Are we to suppose that all the matter which at any time entered into its composition here is to be recollected, and to constitute a colossal frame? Are we to suppose that it will be the same as it is here, with the same organization, the same necessities, the same needs? Are we to suppose that the aged will be raised as aged, and the young as young, and that infancy will be raised in the same state, and remain such for ever? Are we to suppose that the bodies will be gross, material, and needing support and nourishment, or, that there will be a new organization?” All these and numerous other questions have been asked, in regard to the bodies at the resurrection; and it is by no means improbable that they were asked by the subtle and philosophizing Greeks, and that they constituted a part of the reasoning of those who denied the doctrine of the resurrection. This question, or objection, the apostle answers 1 Corinthians 15:39-50. It has been doubted, indeed, whether he refers in this verse to two inquiries - to the possibility of the resurrection, and to the kind of bodies that should be raised; but it is the most obvious interpretation of the verse, and it is certain that in his argument he discusses both these points.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 35. But some man will say — αλλα ερει τις. It is very likely that the apostle, by τις some, some one, some man, means particularly the false apostle, or teacher at Corinth, who was chief in the opposition to the pure doctrine of the Gospel, and to whom, in this covert way, he often refers.

The second part of the apostle's discourse begins at this verse. What shall be the nature of the resurrection body?

1. The question is stated, 1 Corinthians 15:35.

2. It is answered: first, by a similitude, 1 Corinthians 15:36-38;

secondly, by an application, 1 Corinthians 15:33-41;

and thirdly, by explication, 1 Corinthians 15:42-50.