What does 1 Corinthians 15:44 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."
Verse 44. _IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY_] σωμα ψυχικον. An _animal_ _body_, having a multiplicity of _solids_ and _fluids_ of different kinds, with different functions; composed of muscles, fibres, tendo...
IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY - (σῶμα ψυχικὸν sōma psuchikon). This word, “natural,” denotes properly that which is endowed with “animal” life, having breath, or vitality. The word from which it is der...
III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1...
Paul now meets the objection, How are the dead raised? in what kind of a body do they come back from the tomb? Only a fool (in the Hebrew rather than the Greek sense), he tartly says, would ask such a...
JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult...
NATURAL. Greek. _psuchikos._ See 1 Corinthians 2:14. SPIRITUAL. Greek. _pneumatikos._ See 1 Corinthians 12:1. AND THERE IS. there is also....
_it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body_ For the word _natural_see ch. 1 Corinthians 2:14. The -natural body" is the body accommodated to, and limited by, the needs of the animal lif...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58. THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION This chapter is one of the deepest and most mysterious in the Bible. It is the one exception to the statement in ch. 3 that St Paul was unable t...
_CHANGES BROUGHT BY THE RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58:_ Some were asking, "How will the dead be raised to life? What kind of bodies will they have?" They were taught that changes would take plac...
ΨΥΧΙΚΌΣ (G5591) естественный, принадлежащий душе, физическое тело, пригодное для земной жизни (SBT, 156) и подверженное влиянию греха (Sider, NTS 21:433ff). ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΌΣ (G4152) духовное, принадлежаще...
IT IS SOWN IN CORRUPTION.— "The body which has now in it such manifest principles of mortality and corruption, which consists now of such brittle and tender parts, that the least disease disturbs, and...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Its Heavenliness (1 Corinthians 15:35-57) 35 But some one will ask, How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come? 36You foolish man! What you sow does no...
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. A NATURAL BODY - literally, 'an animal [ psuchikon (G5591)] body;' a bodily organi...
40 There is no direct statement here that our bodies will be changed to celestial bodies, in accord with the later revelation of Ephesians, but such an inference would be in point. Even among the cele...
15:44 natural (b-5) natural (b-17) i.e. having natural life through the living soul....
_(F) THE FACT AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD_ Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this would...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *RESURRECTION 15:1-58 The reason that Paul was writing about the *resurrection is in verse 12. Some Christians were saying that there i...
IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY. — Here is a further and different application of the three analogies. It is not only that there is a variety of body in these illustrations, but there is also an adaptabilit...
CHAPTER 24 THE SPIRITUAL BODY THE proofs of the Resurrection which Paul has adduced are satisfactory. So long as they are clearly before the mind, we find it possible to believe in that great experi...
“There is sown a psychic body; there is raised a spiritual body.” This dictum grounds the antithesis unfolded in 1 Corinthians 15:42 f. upon its proper basis; the diff [2540] is not a matter of condit...
VICTORY OVER SIN AND DEATH 1 Corinthians 15:42 Life on the other side will be as real and as earnest as here. We shall not dissolve into thin mist or flit as bodiless ghosts. We shall each be provid...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were s...
The Glorified Body The resurrection will be just like what occurs in farmers' fields all over the world. A seed, or body, that will die (Genesis 3:19) is planted, or buried, and is raised with a new...
(24) It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. (24) He shows perfectly in one word this change of the quality of the body by th...
How do the dead rise again? He now answers the objections these new teachers made against the resurrection. St. John Chrysostom reduces them to these two questions: how is it possible for them to rise...
II. THE MODE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58. After demonstrating the essential part played by the resurrection in the Christian salvation, the apostle sets himself to answer t...
(35) But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? (36) Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: (37) And that which thou sowest, thou s...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_THE FUTURE LIFE_ ‘It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.’ 1 Corinthians 15:44 There is no more wonderful or impressive chapter in the Bible than this fifteenth chapter of the Ep...
44._It is sown an animal body. _As he could not express _each _particular by enumerating one by one, he sums up all _comprehensively _in one word, by saying that the body is now _animal, _(108) but it...
But other evils had found means to introduce themselves into the midst of the shining gifts which were exercised in the bosom of the flock at Corinth. The resurrection of the dead was denied. Satan is...
IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY,.... Or an animal one, being generated as animals are, and supported with food as they be, and die at last as they do: see Ecclesiastes 3:19. IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY;...
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. Ver. 44. _A spiritual body_] Luther saith the body shall move up and down like though...
_So also is the resurrection of the dead_ So great is the difference between the body which fell and that which rises. It is to be observed, that in this and the following verses, the apostle is givin...
A NATURAL BODY-A SPIRITUAL BODY; in the original Greek the word rendered "natural" is the adjective corresponding to the word rendered "soul" in verse 1 Corinthians 15:45. In order better to understan...
A contrast between the present and the future states:...
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is th...
IT IS SOWN. NATURAL BODY; IT IS RAISED. SPIRITUAL BODY. IF THERE IS. NATURAL BODY, THERE IS ALSO. SPIRITUAL BODY. 'natural body' -'A natural body tells you where it is made for. It is suited for lif...
35-50 1. How are the dead raised up? that is, by what means? How can they be raised? 2. As to the bodies which shall rise. Will it be with the like shape, and form, and stature, and members, and qual...
IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY; such a body as all living creatures have by nature, which is upheld by the actions of the soul that quickeneth it; both the vegetative powers, by which it is nourished by th...
it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. [This power of God to preserve identity in diversity works out glorious results fo...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II How is it possible, therefore, that that seed should be after images of the angels, seeing it has obtained a form after the likeness of men? Why, again, since it was...
1 Corinthians 15:44 sown G4687 (G5743) natural G5591 body G4983 raised G1453 (G5743) spiritual G4152 body G4983 is G2076 (G5748) natural G5591 body G4983 and G2532 is G2076 (G5748) spiritual G4152 bod...
'So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is s...
_The Mode and Issues of the Resurrection,_ 35-57. The invaluable information on the subject of the resurrection here given is drawn forth in the way of reply to objections, arising from the difficult...
A NATURAL BODY (σωμα ψυχικον). See on 1 Corinthians 2:14 for this word, a difficult one to translate since ψυχη has so many meanings. Natural is probably as good a rendering as can be made, but it i...
1 Corinthians 15:42 I. This body of ours is a body that, whenever and however sown, is sown in corruption, in dishonour, and in weakness. These are the three capital faults of our present mortal bodie...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
CONTENTS: The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers resulting from it. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Cephas, James, Adam. CONCLUSION: The resurrection of Christ, together with Hi...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you._ We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially the d...
WHEN BURIED it is flesh and blood, under the curse (Genesis 3:16-19). WHEN RAISED it will be a spiritual body, structured to fit into the _eternal world_ (1 John 3:1-3)....
_But some man will say, How are the dead raised up?_ and with what body do they come? HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? I. These words meant, “How can the dead be raised up?” Let us try to find an answer...
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence...
CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proves the resurrection of the dead against the false teachers who denied it: I. From the fact of Christ's resurrection. Thus (ver. 12) he gives the bearing of...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 15:35.— (1) Emphasis on “_the dead_,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “_With what_ (kind of) _body?_” See Homiletic Analysis. 1 Corinthians 15:36.—Emphasis on “_thou_” (so R...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _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...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 15. The Corinthian church was a real mess. A lot of carnality that led to divisions, a lot of party spirit, a real misunderstanding of the spiritual gifts, a lot o...
John 20:19; John 20:26; Luke 24:31...
A natural body [σ ω μ α ψ υ χ ι κ ο ν]. See on ch. 1 Corinthians 2:14. The word yucikon natural occurs only twice outside this epistle; James 3:15; Jude 1 Corinthians 15:1 9The expression natural body...
HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? 1 Corinthians 15:29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29 1. THE FIRST...
It is sown in this world a merely animal body — Maintained by food, sleep, and air, like the bodies of brutes: but it is raised of a more refined contexture, needing none of these animal refreshments,...
Is the resurrection body material or immaterial? PROBLEM: Paul declares that the resurrection body is a “spiritual body” (1 Corinthians 15:44), but a spiritual body is an immaterial body. However, el...
Observe here, 1. Our apostle draws. parallel between the TWO ADAMS, the first man and Christ; they were two roots and distinct fountains, from whence all life did spring and flow; all natural life fro...