1 Corinthians 15
Lutheran reading notes
In 1 Corinthians chapter 15, the message of the gospel develops the theme of instruction for church life and unity in Christ. Lutheran interpretation frequently emphasizes the proclamation of Christ, the distinction between law and gospel, and the promise of justification through faith.
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Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
1 Corinthians 15:1 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. {keep...: or, hold fast} {what: Gr. by what speech}
1 Corinthians 15:2 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1 Corinthians 15:3 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians 15:4 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
1 Corinthians 15:5 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:6 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
1 Corinthians 15:7 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. {one...: or, an abortive}
1 Corinthians 15:8 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1 Corinthians 15:9 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which {was bestowed} upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:10 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore whether {it were} I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
1 Corinthians 15:11 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:12 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
1 Corinthians 15:13 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And if Christ be not risen, then {is} our preaching vain, and your faith {is} also vain.
1 Corinthians 15:14 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
1 Corinthians 15:15 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
1 Corinthians 15:16 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And if Christ be not raised, your faith {is} vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:17 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
1 Corinthians 15:18 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
1 Corinthians 15:19 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But now is Christ risen from the dead, {and} become the firstfruits of them that slept.
1 Corinthians 15:20 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For since by man {came} death, by man {came} also the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:21 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:22 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians 15:23 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then {cometh} the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1 Corinthians 15:24 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1 Corinthians 15:25 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The last enemy {that} shall be destroyed {is} death.
1 Corinthians 15:26 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under {him, it is} manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1 Corinthians 15:27 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians 15:28 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:29 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
1 Corinthians 15:30 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. {your: some read, our}
1 Corinthians 15:31 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. {after...: or, to speak after the manner of men}
1 Corinthians 15:32 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians 15:33 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak {this} to your shame.
1 Corinthians 15:34 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But some {man} will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
1 Corinthians 15:35 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Thou} fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
1 Corinthians 15:36 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other {grain}:
1 Corinthians 15:37 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
1 Corinthians 15:38 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All flesh {is} not the same flesh: but {there is} one {kind of} flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, {and} another of birds.
1 Corinthians 15:39 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{There are} also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial {is} one, and the {glory} of the terrestrial {is} another.
1 Corinthians 15:40 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{There is} one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for {one} star differeth from {another} star in glory.
1 Corinthians 15:41 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So also {is} the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1 Corinthians 15:42 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1 Corinthians 15:43 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1 Corinthians 15:44 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam {was made} a quickening spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:45 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Howbeit that {was} not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:46 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The first man {is} of the earth, earthy: the second man {is} the Lord from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:47 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As {is} the earthy, such {are} they also that are earthy: and as {is} the heavenly, such {are} they also that are heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:48 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinthians 15:49 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians 15:50 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:51 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
1 Corinthians 15:52 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal {must} put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:53 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Corinthians 15:54 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O death, where {is} thy sting? O grave, where {is} thy victory? {grave: or, hell}
1 Corinthians 15:55 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The sting of death {is} sin; and the strength of sin {is} the law.
1 Corinthians 15:56 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But thanks {be} to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58 highlights apostolic teaching for the church with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.