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1 Corinthians 15:12-18

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

12. Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14. And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain. 15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17. And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

1 Corinthians 15:12-18 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 15:12

Theological / Devotional

Now. With this verse the apostle begins his closely woven arguments concerning the resurrection. In vs. 5-8 he has established the historical basis of the resurrection by presenting testimony from a multitude of reliable eyewitnesses. He now asks how, in the light of this well-proved fact, any Corinthian believer can deny a general resurrection of the dead.

No resurrection. Apparently there were some at Corinth who denied the possibility of a bodily resurrection of the dead. In vs. 13-19 Paul demonstrates the destructive nature of such a denial, and shows how such a belief is incompatible with the proved fact that Jesus had been raised (see also v. 16).

Of the dead. Literally, “from among dead [ones].”

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