1 Corinthians 15:20-23 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:20-34

In this passage the apostle establishes the truth of the resurrection of the dead, the holy dead, the dead in Christ, I. On the resurrection of Christ. 1. Because he is indeed the first-fruits of those that slept, 1 Cor. 15:20. He has truly risen himself, and he has risen in this very quality and character, as the first-fruits of those who sleep in him. As he has assuredly risen, so in his resurrection there is as much an earnest given that the dead in him shall rise as there was that the... 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 15:20

But now is Christ risen from the dead ,.... As was before proved by ocular testimonies, and before preached and asserted; and now reassumed and concluded, from the glaring contradictions, and dreadful absurdities that follow the denial of it: and became the firstfruits of them that slept ; who were already fallen asleep; respecting chiefly the saints that died before the resurrection of Christ; and if Christ was the firstfruit of them, there is no difficulty of conceiving how he is the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:21

For since by man came death ,.... The first man, by sin, was the cause of death; of its coming into the world, and upon all men, by which corporeal death is here meant; though the first man also by sin brought a moral death, or a death in sin on all his posterity; and rendered them liable to an eternal death, which is the just wages of sin; but since the apostle is treating of the resurrection of the body, a bodily death seems only intended: by man came also the resurrection of the dead ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:22

For as in Adam all die ,.... The apostle here shows who he meant in the former verse, by the one man the cause of death, and by the other the author of the resurrection of the dead, and that he intended Adam and Christ; all men were in Adam seminally, as the common parent of human nature, in such sense as Levi was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him, and in him paid tithes unto him; and they were all in him representatively, he being the federal head of all his posterity, and so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:23

But every man in his own order ,.... Not of time, as if the saints that lived in the first age of the world should rise first, and then those of the next, and so on to the end of the world; nor of dignity, as that martyrs should rise first in the order of martyrs, and preachers of the word in the order of preachers, and private Christians in the order and rank of private Christians; or of age, as the elder first, and then the younger; or of state and condition, as married persons in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:20

But now is Christ risen - On the contrary, Christ is raised from the dead, and is become the first fruits of them that slept. His resurrection has been demonstrated, and our resurrection necessarily follows; as sure as the first fruits are the proof that there is a harvest, so surely the resurrection of Christ is a proof of ours. The Judaizing teacher at Corinth would feel the force of this observation much sooner than we can, who are not much acquainted with Jewish customs. "Although," says... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:21

For since by man came death - Mortality came by Adam, immortality by Christ; so sure as all have been subjected to natural death by Adam, so sure shall all be raised again by Christ Jesus. Mortality and immortality, on a general ground, are the subject of the apostle's reasoning here; and for the explanation of the transgression of Adam, and the redemption by Christ, see the notes on Romans 5:10 , etc. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:23

But every man in his own order - The apostle mentions three orders here: Christ, who rose from the dead by his own power. Them that are Christ's; all his apostles, martyrs, confessors, and faithful followers. Then cometh the end, when the whole mass shall be raised. Whether this order be exactly what the apostle intends, I shall not assert. Of the first, Christ's own resurrection, there can be no question. The second, the resurrection of his followers, before that of the common dead,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:20

Verse 20 20.But now hath Christ risen. Having shown what dreadful confusion as to everything would follow, if we were to deny that the dead rise again, he now again assumes as certain, what he had sufficiently established previously — that Christ has risen; and he adds that he is thefirst-fruits, (48) by a similitude taken, as it appears, from the ancient ritual of the law. For as in the first-fruits the produce of the entire year was consecrated, so the power of Christ’s resurrection is... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:20-34

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:20

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