1 Corinthians 15:24-54 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:30

And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? Not only they that have suffered martyrdom for the faith of Christ, and for this article of it, have acted very injudiciously and indiscreetly; but we, also, who are on the spot, whether ministers or private Christians, must be highly blameworthy, who continually expose ourselves to dangers, and are for Christ's sake killed all the day long, are every moment liable to innumerable injuries, tortures and death; who in his senses would act such a part,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:31

I protest by your rejoicing ,.... Some copies read, "our rejoicing"; and so the Ethiopic version, which seems most natural and easy; since it follows, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord ; who in him could rejoice and glory in afflictions and sufferings, which he endured as a preacher of the Gospel for his sake; and which being certain and evident, and what might be depended upon, he makes a protestation by it, saying, I die daily ; which is to be understood, not in a spiritual... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:32

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus ,.... This is one of the particulars of the jeopardy and danger of life he had been in: some understand this in a figurative sense, and think that by "beasts" are meant Satan, the roaring lion, and his principalities and powers; or men of savage dispositions, persecuting principles, and cruel practices; as Herod is called a fox, by Christ, and Nero a lion, by the apostle; and suppose his fighting with them at Ephesus designs his... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:33

Be not deceived ,.... By such as deny the doctrine of the resurrection, and by their reasonings about it; or by such libertines who go into the denial of it, and argue from thence in favour of their licentious course of life: evil communications corrupt good manners . This is a sentence taken out of Menander, an Heathen poet, showing how dangerous is the conversation of evil men, and what an influence bad principles communicated and imbibed, have on the lives and practices of men. This... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:34

Awake to righteousness, and sin not ,.... The apostle represents the Corinthians as inebriated with bad principles and notions, and as fallen asleep, and as greatly remiss, and declined in the exercise of grace and discharge of duty; and therefore calls upon them to awake out of sleep, to watch and be sober, and attend to "righteousness"; to the justice of God, which requires the resurrection of the dead, and makes it necessary that men may receive the things done in the body, whether good... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35

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... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:36

Thou fool ,.... Not transgressing the law of Christ, which makes him that calls his brother a fool in danger of hell fire; for the apostle said not this in anger, and from a malevolent disposition, as that rule supposes, but out of zeal for truth, and to reprove the stupidity and folly of such a bold objector; in opposing the veracity and power of God, in setting up his reason above divine revelation, and in not attending even to natural philosophy itself; in which professing to be wise he... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:37

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be ,.... The sower, for instance, does not take a stalk of wheat in its blade, and ear, and full corn in the ear, encompassed with the husk, and sow it in the earth, which is the body or form in which it appears when it rises up again, and is come to its full growth: but bare grain (or naked grain) it may chance of wheat, or some other grain ; wheat, or any other grain, is cast into the earth naked, beat out of the husk;... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:38

But God giveth it a body, as it hath pleased him ,.... It is not the husbandman, nor the sun, nor the rain, that give the grain of wheat, or any other, its verdure and beauty, the form in which it springs up, its stalk, blade, and ear, but God by his own power, and of his sovereign will and pleasure; and he does not create this new form, but gives it; and does not barely give it, but gives the body to it: to the selfsame grain, and not another: so the resurrection of the dead is God's work;... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:39

All flesh is not the same flesh ,.... Or "equal", as the Syriac version renders it; though all flesh is flesh, as to the nature and substance of it; agrees in its original, being by generation; and is supported by food, and is alike frail and mortal; all flesh is grass, rises out of it, or is maintained by it, or withers like that, yet not of equal worth, value, and excellency: "but" there is "one" kind "of flesh of men"; which is superior to, and more excellent than any other; being... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:39

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