1 Corinthians 15:51-53 NIV

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:53

Verse 53 53.For this corruptible must Mark, how we shall live in the kingdom of God both in body and in soul, while at the same time flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God — for they shall previously be delivered from corruption. Our nature then, as being now corruptible and mortal, is not admissible into the kingdom of God, but when it shall have put off corruption, and shall have been beautified with in-corruption, it will then make its way into it. This passage, too, distinctly... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:1-58

The doctrine of the resurrection. This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and important. No human words ever written have brought such comfort to millions of mourners as the words of this chapter, which form a part of the Burial Service of almost every Christian community. It is the more deeply imprinted on the memory of men because it comes to us in the most solemn hours of bereavement, when we have... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:1-58

The exposition and defence of the resurrection. This chapter stands, as it were, by itself in the Epistle, and indeed in the Scripture. The Gospels relate the fact of our Saviour's rising from the dead; but St. Paul in this passage, remarkable alike for closeness of reasoning, for fervent of eloquence, and for elevation of spiritual treatment, writes as the theologian of the resurrection. In opposition to false teachers who had arisen in the Corinthian Church, the apostle maintains the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50-54

Corporeal transformation. "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

Conclusion and exhortation. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51

I show you a mystery. I make known to you a truth now made known to me by revelation. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. There is a great diversity of readings in this verse, noticed even by St. Jerome and St. Augustine. St. Jerome says that all the Latin manuscripts had "we shall all rise," and that the Greek manuscripts wavered between "we shall all sleep" and "we shall not all sleep." Some Greek manuscripts had "we shall all rise, but we shall not all be changed." This... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:52

The trumpet shall sound. The Lord, he says, in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 , "shall descend from heaven with… the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God." The trumpet is, of course, only a natural symbol. It is also found in rabbinic writers, and in the Old Testament ( Zechariah 9:14 ), as well as in Revelation 11:15 . We shall be changed. The dead shall be changed by resurrection, the living by transition, into a glorified body. St. Paul, dealing with the essence of the question... read more

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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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:53

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:1-58

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:1-58

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50-54

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:52

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53

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