1 Corinthians 15:16

15:16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

1 Corinthians 15:21

15:21 For since death came through a man, ¹  the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. ² 

1 Corinthians 15:12

No Resurrection?

15:12 Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, ³  how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

1 Corinthians 15:29

15:29 Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? ⁴  If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

1 Corinthians 15:13

15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

1 Corinthians 15:20

15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:35

The Resurrection Body

15:35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

1 Corinthians 15:42

15:42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. ⁵ 

1 Corinthians 15:32

15:32 If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, ⁶  what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. ⁷ 

1 Corinthians 15:52

15:52 in a moment, in the blinking ⁸  of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:15

15:15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

[15:21]  ¹ tn Or “through a human being” (a reference to Adam).

[15:21]  ² tn Or “through a human being” (a reference to Jesus Christ).

[15:12]  ¹ tn Grk “that he has been raised from the dead.”

[15:29]  ¹ sn Many suggestions have been offered for the puzzling expression baptized for the dead. There are up to 200 different explanations for the passage; a summary is given by K. C. Thompson, “I Corinthians 15,29 and Baptism for the Dead,” Studia Evangelica 2.1 (TU 87), 647-59. The most likely interpretation is that some Corinthians had undergone baptism to bear witness to the faith of fellow believers who had died without experiencing that rite themselves. Paul’s reference to the practice here is neither a recommendation nor a condemnation. He simply uses it as evidence from the lives of the Corinthians themselves to bolster his larger argument, begun in 15:12, that resurrection from the dead is a present reality in Christ and a future reality for them. Whatever they may have proclaimed, the Corinthians’ actions demonstrated that they had hope for a bodily resurrection.

[15:42]  ¹ tn Grk “it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.” The “it” refers to the body, as v. 44 shows.

[15:32]  ¹ map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

[15:32]  ² sn An allusion to Isa 22:13; 56:12.

[15:52]  ¹ tn The Greek word ῥιπή (rJiph) refers to a very rapid movement (BDAG 906 s.v.). This has traditionally been translated as “twinkling,” which implies an exceedingly fast – almost instantaneous – movement of the eyes, but this could be confusing to the modern reader since twinkling in modern English often suggests a faint, flashing light. In conjunction with the genitive ὀφθαλμοῦ (ofqalmou, “of an eye”), “blinking” is the best English equivalent (see, e.g., L&N 16.5), although it does not convey the exact speed implicit in the Greek term.