1 Corinthians 15:45-58 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-50

The apostle comes now to answer a plausible and principal objection against the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, concerning which observe the proposal of the objection: Some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? 1 Cor. 15:35. The objection is plainly two-fold. How are they raised up? that is, ?By what means? How can they be raised? What power is equal to this effect?? It was an opinion that prevailed much among the heathens, and the Sadducees seem... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51-57

To confirm what he had said of this change, I. He here tells them what had been concealed from or unknown to them till then?that all the saints would not die, but all would be changed. Those that are alive at our Lord's coming will be caught up into the clouds, without dying, 1 Thess. 4:11. But it is plain from this passage that it will not be without changing from corruption to incorruption. The frame of their living bodies shall be thus altered, as well as those that are dead; and this in a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:58

In this verse we have the improvement of the whole argument, in an exhortation, enforced by a motive resulting plainly from it. I. An exhortation, and this threefold:?1. That they should be stedfast?hedraioi, firm, fixed in the faith of the gospel, that gospel which he had preached and they had received, namely, That Christ died for our sins, and arose again the third day, according to the scriptures (1 Cor. 15:3, 4), and fixed in the faith of the glorious resurrection of the dead, which, as... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:1-58

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult chapters in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult, but it has also given to the creed a phrase which many people have grave difficulty in affirming, for it is from this chapter that we mainly derive the idea of the resurrection of the body. The chapter will be far less difficult if we study it against its background, and even that troublesome phrase will become quite clear and acceptable when we... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:45

And so it is written ,.... In Genesis 2:7 the first man Adam was made a living soul : in the Hebrew text it is, man, or Adam, became, or was made a living soul; that is, as the apostle says, "the first man Adam": he calls him, as the Jews F1 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol 38. 2. & 100. 1. & alibi passim. & קדמון אדם , Cabala denud. par. 4. p. 195, &c.; Vid. 2 Esdras iii. 21. frequently do, אדם הראשון , "the first man"; he was the first man that was made, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:46

Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual ,.... As the apostle before proves the distinction of a natural and spiritual body, and gives instances of both in the two principal men in the world, the first and the last; and points out the difference between them, the one being animated, and having life given unto it, the other animating, and giving life to others; proceeds to observe the order of these, how that one was before the other; the spiritual body, though the more perfect and most... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man is of the earth, earthy ,.... He was formed out of the earth, Genesis 2:7 and the word there used signifies red earth. Josephus F3 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 1. sect. 2. observes, that the first man was called Adam, which in the Hebrew tongue signifies red, because he was made out of red earth; for such, adds he, is the true and virgin earth: Pausanias F4 Phocica, sive l. 10. p. 615. makes mention of a clay, which is not the colour of earth, but like the sand of brooks and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:48

As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy ,.... As was Adam's body, so are the bodies of those that descend from him; they are houses of clay, earthly houses of this tabernacle, which rise out of the earth, are maintained by the things of it, and return to it again: and as is the heavenly, such are , or will be they also that are heavenly ; as is the glorious and spiritual body of Christ, the Lord from heaven, as that now is in heaven, and will be when he descends from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:49

And as we have borne the image of the earthy ,.... Which regards not so much the sinful image of the first man upon the soul, or the depravity of the powers and faculties of it, as his image of frailty and mortality on the body, having like him a body subject to infirmities and death: we shall also bear the image of the heavenly ; which likewise regards not so much the spiritual image of Christ stamped on the soul in regeneration, when Christ is formed in the heart, and the new man is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50

Now this I say, brethren ,.... Upon the whole, I assert this, and observe it to you, out of a truly Christian respect for you, as brethren in the Lord, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God : this shows the necessity there is of a difference between the body that now is, and that which shall be, which the apostle has so largely insisted on, and so clearly proved and explained, in the preceding verses; because the body, as it now is, is not capable of possessing the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-50

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51-57

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:58

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:1-58

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:45

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:46

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:47

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:48

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:49

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50

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