Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione
does not bid us hide away out of sight as sons of darkness. He commands us to stand stedfast,[38]
The First Epistle of Pope Fabian
We exhort you also, according to the word of the apostle, to be "stedfast and immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord."[2]
Verse 1 Corinthians 15:58. _BE YE STEADFAST_] εδραιοι, from εδρα, a _seat_; be settled; confide in the truth of this doctrine of the resurrection, and every thing that pertains to it, as confidently a...
THEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN - In view of the great and glorious truths which have been revealed to us respecting the resurrection, Paul closes the whole of this important discussion with an exhorta...
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...
A new question is now introduced, What will happen to those who are alive when Christ returns? (_cf_. 1 Thessalonians 4:13). The principle that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God finds...
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...
Brothers, I say this, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption. Look now--I tell you something which only the initiated can understand. We shall...
THEREFORE. So then. BELOVED. App-135. STEDFAST. Greek. _hedraios._ See 1 Corinthians 7:37. UNMOVEABLE. Greek. _ametakinetos._ Only here. FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW. knowing. App-132. LORD. App-98....
_Therefore, my beloved brethren_ The aim of St Paul is always practical. Even this magnificent passage comes to what from a merely oratorical point of view is a somewhat tame conclusion, a conclusion...
ὭΣΤΕ, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ ΜΟΥ�. The aim of St Paul is always practical. Even this magnificent passage comes to what from a merely oratorical point of view is a somewhat tame conclusion, a conclusion however which...
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...
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DISCOURSE: 1995 DEATH A CONQUERED ENEMY 1 Corinthians 15:51. Behold, I shew 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 tru...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Its Helpfulness (1 Corinthians 15:58) 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Answer to Problems of The Resurrection_ (35-58) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 15:35-58. But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? 36 Tho...
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. BELOVED. Sound doctrine kind...
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...
UNMOVEABLE] not shaken by false teaching. NOT IN VAIN] contrast 1 Corinthians 15:16. IN THE LORD] Christ is regarded as the atmosphere, so to speak, in which their work is done. It is inspired by Him...
_(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...
THEREFORE. — Because all this is so — because there is a life hereafter — let this life here be worthy of it. You might grow weak and faint-hearted if you could think that all your work for God and tr...
briefly directs the previous teaching against the unsettlement caused by Cor [2587] doubts. This unbelief was taxed in 1 Corinthians 15:32 ff. with sensualism and ignorance of God; its _enervating eff...
§ 56. VICTORY OVER DEATH. The second part of the argument of this chapter has now reached the same platform as the first (_cf._ §§ 51 and 54). The Resurrection of the Body, it has been shown, is an es...
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 provide...
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 so...
The Greatest And Final Victory Our fleshly bodies will have no place in heaven since it is an incorruptible place (1 Peter 1:34). God's apostle to the Gentiles was revealing something which had long b...
(30) 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 (f) Lord. (30) An exhortation ta...
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, become stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” This ὥστε, _so that, therefor...
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...
REFLECTIONS On! thou that art the resurrection and the life! Hail! thou glorious Almighty Lord Jesus! Thou hast indeed declared thyself to be the Son of God, with power, according to the Spirit of hol...
. But the miraculous and instantaneous change from mortality to immortality, which he here asserts, and which is to be wrought without passing through death, this is a mystery nowhere else spoken of....
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...
_‘NOT IN VAIN’_ ‘Grace … not in vain;’ ‘Labour … not in vain.’ 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 15:58 St. Paul, of all men, was ever keen on Christian men and women not only enjoying their privil...
58._Wherefore, my brethren _Having satisfied himself that he had sufficiently proved the doctrine of the resurrection, he now closes his discussion with an exhortation; and this has much more force, t...
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...
THEREFORE MY BELOVED BRETHREN,.... This is the conclusion of the whole, and contains the use the apostle makes of the above doctrine, addressing the saints at Corinth in the most tender and affectiona...
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. Ver. 58. _Always abounding, &c....
_The sting of death is sin_ Which arms it with its greatest terrors, and is attended with a foreboding of future misery, as the effect of the divine displeasure. _And the strength of sin_ Which consti...
STEADFAST; in the faith and practice of the gospel, in habitual lively confidence of the resurrection, the day of judgment, and the retributions of eternity. UNMOVABLE; not discouraged by opposition...
THEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, BE YE STEADFAST, UNMOVABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD. The apostle here sets forth a fin...
The transformation of the last day and the victory over death:...
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...
WHEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, BE YE STEDFAST, UNMOVEABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YOUR LABOR IS NOT VAIN IN THE LORD. 'Wherefore' -the conclusion. 'BE...
51-58 All the saints should not die, but all would be changed. In the gospel, many truths, before hidden in mystery, are made known. Death never shall appear in the regions to which our Lord will bea...
The apostle concludeth his discourse, proving the resurrection of the body from the dead, founding upon it an exhortation to holiness, which is here called THE WORK OF THE LORD, because it is made up...
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord. [Therefore, since you see that the de...
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore G5620 my G3450 beloved G27 brethren G80 be G1096 (G5737) steadfast G1476 immovable...
'Wherefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.' What then does this mean for u...
_Inference from the_ _whole subject,_ 58. 1 Corinthians 15:58. WHEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN in view of all that has been held forth to you on this subject BE YE STEDFAST, UNMOVEABLE not moved either...
BE YE STEADFAST, UNMOVABLE (εδραιο γινεσθε, αμετακινητο). "Keep on becoming steadfast, unshaken." Let the sceptics howl and rage. Paul has given rational grounds for faith and hope in Christ the Ri...
1 Corinthians 15:58 I. The duty which is connected with our being steadfast and unmovable in the faith of the resurrection, and of the resurrection life, is (1) to be about the work of the Lord; (2)...
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 His...
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...
STAND FIRM AND STEADY. "Do this because the dead will be raised to life and God's people will be happy beyond any human imagination in that Eternal Kingdom!!!" KEEP BUSY. Compare 1 Corinthians 15:14....
_O death, where is thy sting?_ O grave, where is thy victory? DEATH IN IDEA There are two aspects in which this language might be regarded. 1. As the sentiment of the redeemed after the resurrecti...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:58 THEREFORE implies a practical application for the doctrine of the resurrection. The WORK Christians do for the kingdom of God will bring results that last for...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35 Apparently the Corinthians did not understand how material bodies, subject to sickness, death, and eventual decay, could live eternally. Paul explains that G...
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 i...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:10; 1 Corinthians 3:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:12;...
Steadfast, unmovable. The former refers to their firm establishment in the faith; the latter to that establishment as related to assault from temptation or persecution. Fixedness is a condition of abo...
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...
Be ye steadfast — In yourselves. Unmovable — By others; continually increasing in the work of faith and labour of love. Knowing your labour is not in vain in the Lord — Whatever ye do for his sake sha...
Here our apostle concludes this chapter, and closes his discourse on this great subject, the doctrine of the body's resurrection, with an exhortation to duty. BE YE STEADFAST; that is, in the faith of...