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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53

This mortal must put on immortality. When we are "clothed upon" by our "house from heaven," and have put off "this tabernacle," in which we groan being burdened, then "mortality will be swallowed up of life" ( 2 Corinthians 5:3 , 2 Corinthians 5:4 , where we also find the metaphor of a robe of immortality, mixed up with the metaphor of a building). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53

The mind exchanging the mortal for the immortal "And this mortal must put on immortality," etc. Paul uses this language in relation to the body. What he means, I presume, is that the mortal shall be exchanged for the immortal. To lint on "immortality" upon mortality is scarcely conceivable. But the receiving of the immortal instead of the mortal is what we can appreciate, and what we may well desire. When the apostle calls upon us elsewhere to put on the "new man," he means exchange... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:53

For this corruptible ... - It is necessary that a change should take place, either by dying and then being raised, or by being changed without seeing death; for we cannot enter heaven as we are now.Must put on - The word used here (ἐνδύνω endunō ) properly means to go in, to envelope, to put on as a garment; and then to put on any thing; as the soul is, as it were, clothed with, or invested with a body; and here it means, must be endued with, or furnished with. It is equivalent to saying... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:53-54

1 Corinthians 15:53-54. For this corruptible This human nature, which is corruptible; must In order to its partaking of the above-mentioned glory; put on incorruption Be endued with such qualities as shall continue in perpetual vigour, not subject to any alteration; and this mortal must put on immortality So as to be no longer subject to diseases or death. The word ενδυσασθαι , here rendered to put on, literally signifies to go into a place, or metaphorically, to put on, or go into... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

The resurrection body (15:35-58)Some people mocked the idea of the resurrection by asking how could bodies that have decayed in the earth be raised to life again. Paul answers with an illustration. A seed dies when it is put in the ground, but this is part of the process of bringing forth new life in the form of a plant that grows up out of the ground. What grows up is different from what was buried, but in a sense it is the same thing. It is dry and dead looking when put in the ground, but... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 15:53

corruptible . Greek. phthart o s . See Romans 1:23 . mortal . Greek. thnetos. See Romans 6:12 . immortality . Greek. athanasia. Only here, 1 Corinthians 15:54 , and 1 Timothy 6:16 . In Romans 2:7 and 2 Timothy 1:10 aphtharsia is translated immortality. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:53

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.The certainty of the change to spiritual bodies in the resurrection is here affirmed by the use of the imperative "must" which has such significant usage in the New Testament. See my Commentary on Matthew, pp. 275-276. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:53

1 Corinthians 15:53. For this corruptible, &c.— "For, in order hereunto, (το φθαρτον τουτο ) this very individual decaying and corruptible body, which is now liable to putrefaction, and will soon corrupt in the grave, must be new-built, and formed into a state of strength and vigour, of spiritual and incorruptible qualities: and this very body (το θνητον τουτο) which is of mortal frame, and, generally speaking, shall die, must be, not created anew, but happilyaltered by a proper... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:53

53. this—pointing to his own body and that of those whom he addresses. put on—as a garment (2 Corinthians 5:2; 2 Corinthians 5:3). immortality—Here only, besides 1 Timothy 6:16, the word "immortality" is found. Nowhere is the immortality of the soul, distinct from the body, taught; a notion which many erroneously have derived from heathen philosophers. Scripture does not contemplate the anomalous state brought about by death, as the consummation to be earnestly looked for (1 Timothy 6:16- :),... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

4. The assurance of victory over death 15:50-58Paul brought his revelation of the resurrection to a climax in this paragraph by clarifying what all this means for the believer in Christ. Here he also dealt with the exceptional case of living believers’ transformation at the Rapture. Transformation is absolutely necessary to enter the spiritual mode of future existence. This transformation will happen when Christ comes. read more

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