the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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1 Corinthians 15:12
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We tell everyone that Christ came back from the dead. If that was what we told you, why are some of y'all telling folks they won't come back from the dead too?
Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?
Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among [the] dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead?
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, "There is no resurrection of the dead"?
Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if Christ is preached, that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if Christ is proclaimed, that He was raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is not a resurrection of the dead?
Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"
Now, let me ask you something profound yet troubling. If you became believers because you trusted the proclamation that Christ is alive, risen from the dead, how can you let people say that there is no such thing as a resurrection? If there's no resurrection, there's no living Christ. And face it—if there's no resurrection for Christ, everything we've told you is smoke and mirrors, and everything you've staked your life on is smoke and mirrors. Not only that, but we would be guilty of telling a string of barefaced lies about God, all these affidavits we passed on to you verifying that God raised up Christ—sheer fabrications, if there's no resurrection.
Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how is it that some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
If Christ be preached how that he rose fro deeth: how saye some that are amoge you that ther is no resurreccion from deeth?
Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised from the dead, how do some say among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ is preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?
Now since we preached that Christ was raised from the dead, why do some of you say that people will not be raised from the dead?
Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
If we preach that Christ was raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?
But if it has been proclaimed that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you are saying there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if it be preached, that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if it is preached that Christ rose from the dead, how can some say among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Messiah is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if we preach that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you keep claiming there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if the Meshiha is proclaimed that he rose from the dead, how are there among you some who say that there is no life for the dead ?
And if the Messiah is proclaimed, as rising from the dead; how is it that there are some among you, who say, There is no reviviscence of the dead?
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18">[xr] Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
But tell me this—since we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead?
We preached to you that Christ has been raised from the dead. But some of you say that people are not raised from the dead. Why do you say this?
Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now, if, Christ is proclaimed, that, from among the dead, he hath been raised, how say some, among you - resurrection of the dead, there is none?
Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
If Christe be preached howe that he rose from the dead: howe say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?
We tell everyone that Christ was raised from death. So why do some of you say that people will not be raised from death?
Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Now, since our message is that Christ has been raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?
And if Crist is prechid, that he roos ayen fro deeth, hou seien summen among you, that the ayenrisyng of deed men is not?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if: 1 Corinthians 15:4
how: 1 Corinthians 15:13-19, Acts 26:8, 2 Thessalonians 2:17
Reciprocal: Matthew 13:27 - whence Matthew 22:23 - which Luke 20:27 - the Sadducees John 2:19 - I will John 5:19 - for John 14:9 - how Acts 2:24 - God Acts 4:2 - preached Acts 10:40 - General Acts 24:15 - that Romans 9:19 - Thou 1 Corinthians 3:10 - and another 1 Corinthians 15:2 - keep in memory 2 Corinthians 11:29 - and I burn Colossians 1:28 - Whom 1 Thessalonians 4:14 - if we 2 Timothy 2:18 - that
Cross-References
Then the LORDE God caused an herde slepe to fall vpon man, and he slepte. And he toke out one of his rybbes, and (in steade therof) he fylled vp ye place with flesh.
And Abram sayde morouer: Beholde, vnto me hast thou geuen no sede: and lo, the sonne of my housholde shal be myne heyre.
And he bad him go forth, and sayde: Loke vp vnto heauen, and tell ye starres: Canst thou nombre them? And he sayde vnto him: Euen so shal thy sede be.
But Abram sayde: LORDE LORDE, Wherby shall I knowe, that I shall possesse it?
And he sayde vnto him: Take a cow of thre yeare olde, and a she goate of thre yeare olde, and a ramme of thre yeare olde, and a turtyll doue, and a yonge pigeon.
And he sayde vnto Abram: knowe this of a suertye, that thy sede shalbe a strauger, in a londe that is not theirs. And they shall make bonde men of them, and intreate them euell foure hundreth yeares.
But the people who they shal serue, wyl I iudge. Afterwarde shall they go forth with greate substaunce:
So Dauid toke ye speare & the cuppe of water at Sauls heade, & they wente their waye. And there was no man yt sawe it, ner perceaued it, nether awaked, but they slepte euery one, for there was a depe slepe fallen vpon them from the LORDE.
In dreames and visions of the night season (when slombrynge cometh vpo me, that they fall a slepe in their beddes)
There sat a yonge man named Eutychos, in a wyndow, and fell in to a depe slepe (whyle Paul was speakinge) and was ouercome with slepe, and fell downe from the thirde lofte, and was taken vp deed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now if Christ be preached that he arose from the dead,.... As he was by the Apostle Paul, when at Corinth, and by all the rest of the apostles elsewhere.
How say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? Who these were is not certain, whether Hymenaeus and Philetus, whose notion this was, were come hither, or any of their disciples; or whether they were some of the followers of Simon Magus and Cerinthus, who denied the resurrection; or rather, whether they were not Jews, and of the sect of the Sadducees, who though they believed in Christ, retained their old principle, that there is no resurrection of the dead, cannot be affirmed: however, it is certain that they were such as were then at Corinth, and went under the Christian name; and it is highly probable were members of the church there; and who not only held this notion privately, but broached it publicly, saying, declaring, affirming, and that openly, before the whole church, what were their opinions and sentiments: it was indeed but some of them, not all that were chargeable with this bad principle, which the apostle asks how, and with what face they could assert, then it had been preached, and so fully proved to them, that Christ was risen from the dead; and if so, then it is out of question that there is a resurrection of the dead; for their notion, as it is here expressed, was not only that there would be no resurrection of the dead, but that there was none, nor had been any: though the apostle's view is also to prove the future resurrection of the dead, and which is done by proving the resurrection of Christ, for his resurrection involves that of his people; for not only the saints rose in, and with Christ, as their head representatively, and which is the sense of the prophecy in Hosea 6:2 but because he is their head, and they are members of him, therefore as sure as he the head is risen, so sure shall the members rise likewise; nor will Christ's resurrection, in a sense, be perfect, until all the members of his body are risen: for though the resurrection of Christ, personally considered, is perfect, yet not as mystically considered; nor will it till all the saints are raised, of whose resurrection Christ's is the exemplar and the pledge: their bodies will be raised and fashioned like unto Christ's, and by virtue of union to him, and as sure as he is risen, for he is the firstfruits of them that slept. Besides, as he became incarnate, obeyed, suffered, not for himself, but for his people, so he rose again on their account, and that they dying might rise also; which if they should not, one end at least of Christ's resurrection would not be answered: add to this, that the same power that raised Christ from the dead, can raise others, even all the saints; so that if it is allowed that Christ is raised, it need not be thought incredible that all the dead shall be raised; and particularly when it is observed, that Christ is the efficient, procuring, and meritorious cause of the resurrection from the dead, as well as the pattern and earnest of it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now if Christ ... - Paul, having 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 stated the direct evidence for the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, proceeds here to demonstrate that the dead would rise, by showing how it followed from the fact that the Lord Jesus had risen, and by showing what consequences would follow from denying it. The whole argument is based on the fact that the Lord Jesus had risen. If that was admitted, he shows that it must follow that his people would also rise.
Be preached - The word “preached” here seems to include the idea of so preaching as to be believed; or so as to demonstrate that he did rise. If this was the doctrine on which the church was based, that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, how could the resurrection of the dead be denied?
How say - How can any say; how can it be maintained?
Some among you - See the introduction to 1 Corinthians 15:0. Who these were is unknown. They may have been some of the philosophic Greeks, who spurned the doctrine of the resurrection (see Acts 17:32); or they may have been some followers of Sadducean teachers; or it may be that the Gnostic philosophy had corrupted them. It is most probable, I think, that the denial of the resurrection was the result of reasoning after the manner of the Greeks, and the effect of the introduction of philosophy into the church. This has been the fruitful source of most of the errors which have been introduced into the church.
That there is no resurrection of the dead - That the dead cannot rise. How can it be held that there can be no resurrection, while yet it is admitted that Christ rose? The argument here is twofold:
(1) That Christ rose was one “instance” of a fact which demonstrated that there “had been” a resurrection, and of course that it was possible.
(2) That such was the connection between Christ and his people that the admission of this fact involved also the doctrine that all his people would also rise. This argument Paul states at length in the following verses. It was probably held by them that the resurrection was “impossible.” To all this, Paul answers in accordance with the principles of inductive philosophy as now understood, by demonstrating A fact, and showing that such an event had occurred, and that consequently all the difficulties were met. Facts are unanswerable demonstrations; and when a fact is established, all the obstacles and difficulties in the way must be admitted to be overcome. So philosophers now reason; and Paul, in accordance with these just principles, labored simply to establish the fact that one had been raised, and thus met at once all the objections which could be urged against the doctrine. It would have been most in accordance with the philosophy of the Greeks to have gone into a metaphysical discussion to show that it was not impossible or absurd, and this might have been done. It was most in accordance with the principles of true philosophy, however, to establish the fact at once, and to argue from that, and thus to meet all the difficulties at once. The doctrine of the resurrection, therefore, does not rest on a metaphysical subtilty; it does not depend on human reasoning; it does not depend on analogy; it rests just as the sciences of astronomy, chemistry, anatomy, botany, and natural philosophy do, “on well ascertained facts;” and it is now a well understood principle of all true science that no difficulty, no obstacle, no metaphysical subtilty; no embarrassment about being able to see how it is, is to be allowed to destroy the conviction in the mind which the facts are suited to produce.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 15:12. Now if Christ be preached, c.] Seeing it is true that we have thus preached Christ, and ye have credited this preaching, how say some among you, who have professed to receive this doctrine from us that there is no resurrection of the dead, though we have shown that his resurrection is the proof and pledge of ours? That there was some false teacher, or teachers, among them, who was endeavouring to incorporate Mosaic rites and ceremonies with the Christian doctrines, and even to blend Sadduceeism with the whole, appears pretty evident. To confute this mongrel Christian, and overturn his bad doctrine, the apostle writes this chapter.
