1 Corinthians 15:39 BSB

1 Corinthians 15:39

Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

KJV

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book V (220)

Indeed, since he proposes as his examples "wheat grain, or some other grain, to which God giveth a body, such as it hath pleased Him; " since also he says, that "to every seed is its own body; " that, consequently, "there is one kind of flesh of men, whilst there is another of beasts, and (another) of birds; that there are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; and that there is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars" -does he not therefore intimate that there is to be a resurrection of the flesh or body, which he illustrates by fleshly and corporeal samples?

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

All flesh is not the same flesh - This verse and the following are designed to answer the question 1Co 15:35, “with what bodies do they come?” And the argument here is, that there are many kinds of bodies; that all are not alike; that while they are bodies, yet they partake of different qualities, forms, and properties; and that, therefore, it is not absurd to suppose that God may transform the human body into a different form, and cause it to be raised up with somewhat different properties in the future world.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He implies by the word that our resurrection bodies shall be in some sense really flesh, not mere phantoms of air [ESTIUS]. So some of the oldest creeds expressed it, "I believe in the resurrection of the flesh." Compare as to Jesus' own resurrection body, Lu 24:39;

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οὐ	Ou	Not	G3756 →
πᾶσα	pasa	all	G3956 →
σὰρξ	sarx	flesh [is]	G4561 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
αὐτὴ	autē	same	G846 →
σὰρξ	sarx	flesh	G4561 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ἄλλη	allē	one	G243 →
μὲν	men	indeed	G3303 →
ἀνθρώπων,	anthrōpōn	of men,	G444 →
ἄλλη	allē	another	G243 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
σὰρξ	sarx	flesh	G4561 →
κτηνῶν,	ktēnōn	of beasts,	G2934 →
ἄλλη	allē	another	G243 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
σὰρξ	sarx	flesh	G4561 →
πτηνῶν,	ptēnōn	of birds	G4421 →
ἄλλη	allē	another	G243 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἰχθύων.	ichthuōn	of fish.	G2486 →