1 Corinthians 15:22 BSB

1 Corinthians 15:22

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

KJV

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

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Commentary

2 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book V (202)

Vain also are the Ebionites, who do not receive by faith into their soul the union of God and man, but who remain in the old leaven of [the natural] birth, and who do not choose to understand that the Holy Ghost came upon Mary, and the power of the Most High did overshadow her: wherefore also what was generated is a holy thing, and the Son of the Most High God the Father of all, who effected the incarnation of this being, and showed forth a new [kind of] generation; that as by the former generation we inherited death, so by this new generation we might inherit life.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

As through Adam all, even the righteous, die, so through Christ all these shall be made alive - He does not say, "shall revive," (as naturally as they die,) but shall be made alive, by a power not their own.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

For as in Adam - (ἐν τῳ Ἀδαμ en tō Adam). By Adam; by the act, or by means of Adam; as a consequence of his act. His deed was the procuring cause, or the reason, why all are subjected to temporal death; see Gen 3:

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Hebraic traditional view

The sheaf behind “firstfruits”

“Firstfruits” is not a loose metaphor; it is a feast. During Passover week the first sheaf (the omer) of the barley harvest was brought to the priest and waved before the LORD “on the day after the Sabbath” (Leviticus 23:10–11): one sheaf, offered ahead of the whole harvest as its pledge and its guarantee. Paul writes that Christ was raised as “the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep”: the one, risen at that very season, standing for the many to follow. The feast's logic is the argument: where the first sheaf goes, the harvest follows.

Sources: Leviticus 23:10–11 (the waved sheaf) · Mishnah Menachot 10:3 (the omer's cutting, as practiced)

Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὥσπερ	hōsper	For as	G5618 →
γὰρ	gar	indeed	G1063 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Ἀδὰμ	Adam	Adam	G76 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
ἀποθνῄσκουσιν,	apothnēskousin	die,	G599 →
οὕτως	houtōs	so	G3779 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστῷ	Christō	Christ	G5547 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
ζῳοποιηθήσονται.	zōopoiēthēsontai	will be made alive.	G2227 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave…
leads to
- 1 John 2:16
  For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
- James 1:14–15
  But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
- 1 Timothy 2:14
  And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.
Through
Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
leads to
- Romans 6:23
  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- James 1:15
  Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- Genesis 3:19
  By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:56
  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- Galatians 3:10
  All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”