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1 Corinthians 15:21 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 15 · verse 21
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.1 Corinthians 15:21 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 15:21 in context
19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
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- resurrectionanastasisa raising up, rising , a rising from the dead, that of Christ, that of all men at the end…G386 →
- sinceepeidēwhen now, since now, of time when now, after that, of cause since, seeing that, forasmuch…G1894 →
- deaththanatosthe death of the body, that separation of the soul and the body by which the life on…G2288 →
- deadnekrosproperly, one that has breathed his last, lifeless, deceased, departed, one whose soul is…G3498 →
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In this passage the apostle establishes the truth of the resurrection of the dead, the holy dead, the dead in Christ, I. On the resurrection of Christ. 1. Because he is indeed the first-fruits of those that slept, Co1 15:20.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-34