1 Corinthians 15:51 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ”

• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold I show you - This commences the third subject of inquiry in the chapter, the question, what will become of those who are alive when the Lord Jesus shall return to raise the dead? This was...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (29) Behold, I shew you a (d) mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (29) He goes further, declaring that it will come to pass that those who will be found alive in the latter...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A new question is now introduced, What will happen to those who are alive when Christ returns? ( cf . 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 ). The principle that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Behold . App-133.:2. shew . tell. mystery . secret. App-193. sleep . be sleeping. App-171. be changed . Greek. allasao. See Acts 6:14 .

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Hitherto he has included two things in his reasoning. In the first place, he shows that there will be a resurrection from the dead: secondly, he shows of what nature it will be. Now, howe...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1995 DEATH A CONQUERED ENEMY 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 . Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, I show you a mystery - That is, a thing which you have never known before. But what is this mystery? Why, that we sh...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Behold, I shew you a mystery:— I tell you, &c. That is, "a doctrine hitherto unknown, and which you cannot now be able fully to comprehend; for we, the faithful saints of God, shall not all s...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, Behold - calling attention to the "mystery" heretofore hidden in God's purposes, but now revealed. You -...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (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 wo...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Behold, I shew you a mystery. — It is better to take these words as referring to what follows rather than (as some have done) to the preceding statement. A mystery means something which up to this...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Victory over Sin and Death 1 Corinthians 15:42-58 Life on the other side will be as real and as earnest as here. We shall not dissolve into thin mist or flit as bodiless ghosts. We shall each b...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  . But the miraculous and instantaneous change from mortality to immortality, which he here asserts, and which is to be wrought without passing through death, this is a mystery nowhere else spoken of....

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, I show you a mystery ,.... Or a secret, which could never have been discovered by reason, or the light of nature, and what is of pure revelation; and which perhaps the apostle became acquain...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, Ver. 51. I show you a mystery ] Not known till now to any man living. This, likely, was one of those wordless wo...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now this I say, brethren This I offer to your consideration as a great and important truth, that we must first undergo an entire change; for flesh and blood Such as we are now clothed with; cann...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 t...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Resurrection of Saints. A. D.  57.       51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all slee...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  They might object: How can this be? There will be many saints alive in the world at the day when Christ shall come to judge the world, they will have natural bodies, such as they were born with, and...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  'Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 15:35 .— (1) Emphasis on “ the dead ,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “ With what (kind of) body? ” See Homiletic Analysis. 1 Corinthians 15:36 .—Emphasis on “ thou ”...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Scofield Reference Notes

  mystery ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 13:11 ).

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Corinthians 15:50-53 The two main propositions contained in this verse are the following the first, Flesh and blood is corruption; the second, The kingdom of God is incorruption. I. Flesh and b...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1 Corinthians 15:1-2 . 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 memo...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 th...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God I. The general law. 1. This carries with it its own proof: for, obviously, darkness might a...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 15:1-46 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 be...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The transformation of the last day and the victory over death:

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 13:2 ; 1 Corinthians 15:18 ; 1 Corinthians 15:20 ; 1 Corinthians 15:6 ; 1 Corinthians 2:7 ; 1 Corinthians 4:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 ; Ephesians 1:9 ; Ephesians 3:3 ; Ephes...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  How Are the Dead Raised Up? 1 Corinthians 15:29-58 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29-34...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:51 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A mystery — A truth hitherto unknown; and not yet fully known to any of the sons of men. We — Christians. The Apostle considers them all as one, in their succeeding generations. Shall not all die —...

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