Awake up righteously
(εκνηψατε δικαιως). Wake up as if from drunkenness. Εκνηφω, only here in N.T. sin not (μη αμαρτανετε). Stop sinning.No knowledge of God
(αγνωσιαν θεου). Old word for ignorance, in N.T. only here and 1 Peter 2:15. Ignorance of God, agnosticism. Some today (agnostics) even take pride in it instead of shame (εντροπην, turning in on oneself). See on 1 Corinthians 6:5 for εντροπη.
Verse 34. _AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Shake off your slumber; awake fully, thoroughly, δικαιως, as ye _ought to do_: so the word should be rendered; not _awake to righteousness_. Be in earnest; do not t...
AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS - See the note on Romans 13:11. The word here translated “awake” denotes, properly, to awake up from a deep sleep or torpor; and is usually applied to those who awake, or become...
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...
1 CORINTHIANS 15:29. Many interpretations have been offered. The most probable remains that given above. A view which deserves mention is that Paul is referring to those who are baptized for the sake...
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...
If there is no resurrection, what will those who are baptized for the dead do? If the dead are not raised at all, why do people get themselves baptized for them? Every day I take my life in my hands,...
AWAKE. Literally Return to sobriety (of mind). Greek. _eknepho._ Only here in N.T., but in Septuagint Genesis 9:24; 1 Samuel 25:37. &c. TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. righteously, i.e. as is right. Greek. _dikaio...
_Awake to righteousness_ The word here translated -Awake" signifies to arise from the stupefaction of a slumber produced by overindulgence (cf. ch. 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 12:2). The word tr...
ΛΑΛΩ͂ אBDE Vulg. λέγω AFG Peshito. 34. ἘΚΝΉΨΑΤΕ ΔΙΚΑΊΩΣ. ‘The aor. marks the sudden momentary occurrence of the awakening.’ Meyer. ἐκνήφειν signifies to arise from the stupefaction of a slumber produc...
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...
_CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND OUR RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20-34:_ Paul declared that Jesus had been raised from the dead. His resurrection assures us that we too will be raised to life after death....
ΈΚΝΉΨΑΤΕ _aor. act. imper. от_ ΈΚΝΉΨΩ (G1594) отрезвляться, приходить в чувство, пробуждаться. Предл. сочетание указывает на протрезвление (МН, 309). Inch. _aor. imper._ призывает к немедленному дейст...
DISCOURSE: 1994 THE SHAMEFULNESS OF BEING IGNORANT OF GOD 1 Corinthians 15:34. _Some hare not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame_. KNOWLEDGE is the foundation of all acceptable obedienc...
I SPEAK THIS TO YOUR SHAME.— May not this probably be said to make them ashamed of their leader, in whom they were so forward to glory? For it is not unlikely that their questioningand denying the res...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Its Holiness (1 Corinthians 15:12-34) 12 Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13But if th...
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. AWAKE - literally, 'Out of the sleep' [ ekneepsate (G1594)] of carnal intoxication into whic...
12 The resurrection is the very fundamental of fundamentals. The death of Christ is essential to the evangel, yet it is not enough. A dead Christ cannot save. The resurrection is not only essential, b...
15:34 ignorant (i-10) Lit. 'have ignorance.' On the whole, 'ignorant of God' gives the sense. 'Have not the knowledge' is weak. 'No knowledge' does not meet the case. It refers to the true character o...
SOME HAVE NOT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD] hence both unbelief in resurrection, and low moral tone. TO YOUR SHAME] i.e. to shame you; for you ought to surpass the heathen. 35-44. The nature of the Resurrecti...
_(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...
THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION. The Resurrection alone gives an adequate motive for (_a_) baptism for the dead; (_b_) running risk of death in Christian work; or indeed (_c_...
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...
AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SIN NOT. — Literally, _Awake to soberness in a righteous manner,_ With this earnest call to arouse from the sleep of indulgence and of death, the Apostle completes this sec...
CHAPTER 21 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST I. ITS PLACE IN THE CHRISTIAN CREED PAUL having now settled the minor questions of order in public worship, marriage, intercourse with the heathen, and the othe...
CHAPTER 23 CONSEQUENCES OF DENYING RESURRECTION IN endeavoring to restore among the Corinthians the belief in the resurrection of the body, Paul shows the fundamental place occupied in the Christian...
§ 53. THE EFFECT OF UNBELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION. To clinch the argument for the truth and the necessity of the Christian resurrection and to bring it home to the readers, the Ap. points out how futil...
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 deliver Paul's judgment upon the situation: the disbelief in the Resurrection declared in the Cor [2458] Church is of a piece with its low ethics (1 Corinthians 3:1 ff., 1 Corin...
THIS BODY THE SEED OF A GLORIOUS ONE 1 Corinthians 15:29 The anticipation of the final resurrection enabled the early Christians to endure incredible sufferings. As one rank fell martyred, another wa...
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...
A Warning About False Teachers As if to confirm our conclusion about false teachers who baptized the living for the dead, Paul warned the Corinthains to beware because wicked people with false teachin...
I. WITH THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY CHRISTIAN SALVATION RISES OR FALLS. VERS. 1-34. The apostle's first care is to establish firmly the fact of the resurrection of Jesus, on which rests...
1 Corinthians 15:29-34 . After securing for the resurrection of the body its place among the great hopes which stir the hearts of all believers, the apostle adds, as a supplementary argument, a few re...
“Be not deceived: evil company doth corrupt good manners. 34. Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak [thus] to move you to shame.” The formula μὴ πλα...
(29) 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? (30) And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? (31) I protest by your...
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...
34._Awake righteously _As he saw that the Corinthians were in a manner intoxicated, (97) through excessive carelessness, he arouses them from their torpor. By adding, however, the adverb _righteously,...
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...
AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SIN NOT,.... The apostle represents the Corinthians as inebriated with bad principles and notions, and as fallen asleep, and as greatly remiss, and declined in the exercise...
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak _this_ to your shame. Ver. 34. _Awake to righteousness_] Go forth and shake yourselves (as Samson did) out of that...
_I protest by your rejoicing_ Greek, νη την υμετεραν καυχησιν ην εχω, _by the boasting concerning you which I have_, namely, on account of your faith in Christ Jesus our Lord. So the clause is interpr...
AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS; the original is very strong: Awake out of your intoxication, namely, with sin and error. Let the certainty of retribution arouse you to duty, and restrain you from sin; for SOM...
AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SIN NOT; FOR SOME HAVE NOT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD; I SPEAK THIS TO YOUR SHAME. Having been carried forward by his argument of the consequences of Christ's resurrection to a t...
The effect of unbelief in the doctrine of the resurrection:...
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...
AWAKE TO SOBERNESS RIGHTEOUSLY, AND SIN NOT; FOR SOME HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF GOD:. SPEAK THIS TO MOVE YOU TO SHAME. 'Awake to soberness righteously' -'Become sober-minded as you ought' (NASV); 'Come t...
20-34 All that are by faith united to Christ, are by his resurrection assured of their own. As through the sin of the first Adam, all men became mortal, because all had from him the same sinful natur...
AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SIN NOT: sin is in Scripture compared to sleep, REVELATION 13:11 EPHESIANS 5:14, and that very properly; for as the natural senses are bound up in natural sleep, so the sin...
Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame. [Do not be deceived by freethinkers and shun those who would corrupt the truth, for r...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III " Si quis autem ea ratione dicit malam generationem, idem eam dicat bonam, quatenus in ipso veritatem cognoscimus. "Abluamini juste, et ne peccetis. Ignoratione...
1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake G1594 (G5657) righteousness G1346 and G2532 not G3361 sin G264 (G5720) for G1063
FURTHER ARGUMENTS FOR THE NECESSITY OF RESURRECTION (15:29-34). The assumption behind what follows is the belief among some of the Corinthians that man was made of both body and spirit, and that the b...
'Do not be deceived. Evil companionships (or 'conversations') corrupt good morals. Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not. For some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to move you to shame.' P...
1 Corinthians 15:34. AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, [1] AND SIN NOT ‘These opinions spring not from honest conviction, but are bred of too intimate association with men of free thought and lax life, sucking...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
1 Corinthians 15:34 Who then are these Corinthian disciples, that they have not so much as the knowledge of God? Plainly enough our Apostle is not charging them here with ignorance, but with some lac...
1 Corinthians 15:33 I. We sometimes feel a difficulty in understanding why Paul should be so very earnest in insisting on the resurrection of the body. It seems as if he thought that without that elem...
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...
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...
COME BACK TO YOUR RIGHT SENSES. "Just because some say the dead will not rise does not give you the right to sin!" SOME OF YOU DO NOT KNOW GOD. The fact that some were saying the dead will not rise fr...
_And why stand we in Jeopardy every hour?_ THE HOURLY JEOPARDY: THE DAILY DEATH We have now reached the second of St. Paul’s _argumenta ad hominem_. The first is the argument for the resurrection fro...
_Awake to righteousness._ MORAL RESURRECTION This chapter generally deals with the resurrection of the body; but the text refers to the resurrection of the soul. And this is a greater and more glori...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:30 Taking risks to proclaim the gospel makes no sense if there is no resurrection. ⇐...
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 15:20. HATH.—Emphasis here, not on “_now_” or “_Christ_.” Over against their doubts, and speculations, and “impossibilities,” Paul sets the one conclusive _fact_. FIRSTF...
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 6:5; 1 Corinthians 8:7; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; Ephesians 5:14;...
Awake [ε κ ν η ψ α τ ε]. Only here in the New Testament. It means to awake from a drunken stupor. Compare Joel 1:5, Sept. The kindred verb ajnanhfw return to soberness (A. V. and Rev., recover), occur...
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...
Awake — An exclamation full of apostolical majesty. Shake off your lethargy! To righteousness — Which flows from the true knowledge of God, and implies that your whole soul be broad awake. And sin not...