Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Awake - literally, 'Out of the sleep' х ekneepsate (G1594)] of carnal intoxication into which ye are thrown by these sceptics (1 Corinthians 15:32; Joel 1:5).
To righteousness - literally, righteously, in contrast with "sin" and corrupt manners (1 Corinthians 15:33).
Sin not - in sinful pleasures. The Greek expresses a continued abstinence from sin. They who live in sinful pleasures readily persuade themselves of what they wish-namely, that there is to be no resurrection.
Some - the same as in 1 Corinthians 15:12.
Have not the knowledge (literally, have ignorance) of God - know not His power in the resurrection (Matthew 22:29). Stronger than, 'are ignorant of God.' Habitual ignorance: willful, positive error, not merely negative, for they prefer to keep, rather than part with, their sins, in order to know God (cf. 1 Samuel 2:12; John 7:17; 1 Peter 2:15).
To your shame - that you Corinthian Christians, who boast of knowledge, should maintain contact with those so ignorant of God as to deny the resurrection.