1 Corinthians 15:1

1 Corinthians 15:1-58. The Doctrine of the Resurrection

1. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you This gospel was indeed good tidings. Beside the fact that Christ had been offered for our sins (1 Corinthians 15:3) St Paul, as well as the rest of the Apostles (1 Corinthians 15:11), taught that He had risen again in order to communicate to us that new and Divine life whereby our own resurrection should be assured a life which should make the human body, though laid in the grave, a seed from whence in God's own good time, a new and more glorious body should arise. 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 to feed the Corinthians with meat; for it ranks with the profound exposition of the principles of Justification in the Epistle to the Romans, and the weighty but most difficult enunciation of the doctrine of God's foreknowledge and man's call in the first chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians. The chapter may be divided into six parts. See Introduction.

which also you have received Rather, which ye received, that is, when it was preached.

and wherein ye stand Stand fast, that is, against the assaults of sin. Cf. Rom 5:2; 2 Corinthians 1:24; Ephesians 6:11; Ephesians 6:13-14. Our faith in Christ, the giver of the new life of holiness, can alone defend us from evil.