1 Corinthians 15:51 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Concluding argument and exhortation If "flesh and blood" is "corruption," and cannot inherit "incorruption," what then? Educate the present body to the offices of the mind; let every function do its legitimate work, and every organ be faithful to the organism; refine, beautify, ennoble it by all natural and providential agencies; it is, nevertheless, "flesh and blood," and inherits "corruption." No such corporeal structure could go to heaven unchanged. The earthly body of Jesus Christ,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

Behold I show you - This commences the third subject of inquiry in the chapter, the question, what will become of those who are alive when the Lord Jesus shall return to raise the dead? This was an obvious inquiry, and the answer was, perhaps, supposed to be difficult. Paul answers it directly, and says that they will undergo an instantaneous change, which will make them like the dead that shall be raised.A mystery - On the meaning of this word, see the note on 1 Corinthians 2:7. The word here... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:50-52

1 Corinthians 15:50-52. Now this I say, brethren This I offer to your consideration as a great and important truth, that we must first undergo an entire change; for flesh and blood Such as we are now clothed with; cannot inherit the kingdom of God Cannot enter that happy place which Christ hath gone to prepare for the reception of his people, (John 14:7,) cannot possess that kingdom which is wholly spiritual, because it affords no objects suited either to the senses or to the appetites... 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 15:51

Behold . App-133 .:2. shew = tell. mystery = secret. App-193 . sleep = be sleeping. App-171 . be changed . Greek. allasao. See Acts 6:14 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.We shall not all sleep ... There is nothing in this passage to support the notion that Paul believed the end to be in his own lifetime. Some of the Thessalonians got that impression from Paul's teaching; but he at once wrote them another letter to dispel such... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

1 Corinthians 15:51. Behold, I shew you a mystery:— I tell you, &c. That is, "a doctrine hitherto unknown, and which you cannot now be able fully to comprehend; for we, the faithful saints of God, shall not all sleep,—shall not all be submitted to the stroke of death; but we shall all, the living as well as the dead, at the appearance of Christ, be changed in a most happy and glorious manner into the image of our Lord." See 1 Thessalonians 4:15. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

51. Behold—Calling attention to the "mystery" heretofore hidden in God's purposes, but now revealed. you—emphatical in the Greek; I show (Greek, "tell," namely, by the word of the Lord, 1 Thessalonians 4:15) YOU, who think you have so much knowledge, "a mystery" (compare 1 Thessalonians 4:15- :) which your reason could never have discovered. Many of the old manuscripts and Fathers read, "We shall all sleep, but we shall not all be changed"; but this is plainly a corrupt reading, inconsistent... 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 15:51

"Behold" or "Listen" grabs the reader’s attention and announces something important. Paul was about to explain something never before revealed, a mystery (Gr. mysterion; cf. Matthew 13:11; Romans 11:25; Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 14:2; Ephesians 1:9; Ephesians 3:3-4; Ephesians 3:9; Ephesians 5:32; Ephesians 6:19; et al.). He had previously written that at the Rapture dead Christians would rise before God will catch living Christians up... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:50-52

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 15:51

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:51

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 15:51

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