1 Corinthians 15:43
in 1 Corinthians 15It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
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it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
KJV
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
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This verse in 1 Corinthians 15
Commentary
13 notes on this verseBut what is that which, like a grain of wheat, is sown in the earth and decays, unless it be the bodies which are laid in the earth, into which seeds are also cast? And for this reason he said, "It is sown in dishonour, it rises in glory." For what is more ignoble than dead flesh? Or, on the other hand, what is more glorious than the same when it arises and partakes of incorruption?
The record, by era
The Church Fathers5 voices
The body is sown in dishonor because it is placed in a coffin where it rots and is eaten by worms. But when it rises again, it will do so in glory, and all trace of this dishonor will vanish.
We will still be bodies, so vivified by the spirit, however, as to retain the substance of the flesh without suffering the accidents of sluggishness and mortality.
A commentator
Didymus the BlindPAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH · Written before 398.
proposed
When the body formed by the copulation of male and female is sown, dishonor and weakness will be in it because it is the body of a perishing soul and shares its characteristics. But when it rises again by the power of God, it appears …
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power, and so forth. Then again he says: …
"It is sown in dishonor." For what is more unsightly than a corpse in dissolution? "It is raised in glory." "It is sown in weakness." For before thirty days the whole is gone, and the flesh cannot keep itself together nor hold out for one day. "It is raised in power." For there shall nothing prevail against it for all the future. Here is why he stood in need of those former analogies, lest many on hearing of these things, that they are "raised in incorruption and glory and power," might suppose that there is no difference among those who rise again. For all indeed rise again, both in power and in incorruption; and in this glory of their incorruption yet are not all in the same state of honor and safety.
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The Medieval Church2 voices
981. – Secondly, he touches on the mark of clarity, when he says: It is sown in dishonor, i.e., the body, which before death was subject to many deformities and miseries: "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of …
For what is more abased than a dead body? But it shall rise "in glory" of incorruption, though not all shall receive one and the same portion. For not even five days will pass before the flesh cannot withstand corruption; but it will be raised …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
It is sown in dishonour - Shocking to those who loved it best, human nature in disgrace! It is raised in glory - Clothed with robes of light, fit for those whom the King of heaven delights to honour. It is sown in weakness - Deprived even of that feeble strength which it once enjoyed.
It is sown in dishonour,....
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
It is sown in dishonour - In the grave, where it is shut out from human view; hurried away from the sight of friends; loathsome and offensive as a mass turning to decay. There is, moreover, a kind of disgrace and ignominy attending it here, as under the curse of God, and, on account of sin, sentenced to the offensiveness of the grave. It is raised in glory - In honor; in beauty; honored by God by the removal of the curse, and in a form and manner that shall be glorious.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
in dishonour--answering to "our vile body" (Php 3:21); literally, "our body of humiliation": liable to various humiliations of disease, injury, and decay at last. in glory--the garment of incorruption (1Co 15:42, 43) like His glorious body (Php 4:21), which we shall put on (1Co 15:49, 53;
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It is sown in dishonor - Being now stripped of all the glory it had as a machine, fearfully and wonderfully made by the hands of God; and also consigned to death and destruction because of sin. This is the most dishonorable circumstance. It is raised in glory - It is raised a glorious body, because immortal, and for ever redeemed from the empire of death. It is sown in weakness - The principles of dissolution, corruption, and decay, have prevailed over it; disease undermined it; and death made it his prey. It is raised in power - To be no more liable to weakness, through labor; decay, by age; wasting, by disease; and dissolution, by death.
The words behind it
12 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| σπείρεται | speiretai | It is sown | G4687 → | 52 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| ἀτιμίᾳ, | atimia | dishonor, | G819 → | |
| ἐγείρεται | egeiretai | it is raised | G1453 → | 142 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| δόξῃ· | doxe | glory; | G1391 → | 165 times |
| σπείρεται | speiretai | It is sown | G4687 → | 52 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| ἀσθενείᾳ, | astheneia | weakness, | G769 → | |
| ἐγείρεται | egeiretai | it is raised | G1453 → | 142 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| δυνάμει· | dunamei | power; | G1411 → | 119 times |
σπείρεταιIt is sown
speiretaiG4687 →52 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
ἀτιμίᾳ,dishonor,
atimiaG819 →
ἐγείρεταιit is raised
egeiretaiG1453 →142 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
δόξῃ·glory;
doxeG1391 →165 times
σπείρεταιIt is sown
speiretaiG4687 →52 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
ἀσθενείᾳ,weakness,
astheneiaG769 →
ἐγείρεταιit is raised
egeiretaiG1453 →142 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
δυνάμει·power;
dunameiG1411 →119 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Colossians 3:4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
it leads to
- Philippians 3:21
who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- 1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as…
- Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
- 1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Philippians 3:21
Through
1 Corinthians 6:14By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 4:14
knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
- Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His…
- Ephesians 1:19–20
and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
- 2 Corinthians 4:14
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Corinthians
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrosiaster, COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES; Augustine of Hippo, City of God 13.22; Cosmas Indicopleustes, The Christian Topography, Book 7; Didymus the Blind, PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH; Irenaeus, Against Heresies Book V; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on 1 Corinthians 41; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on 1 Corinthians and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on 1 Corinthians.