1 Corinthians 15:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Παρέδωκα γὰρ ὑμῖν ἐν πρώτοις ὃ καὶ παρέλαβον, ὅτι Χριστὸς ἀπέθανεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν κατὰ τὰς γραφάς·

Transliteration

I paredōka gar to you among prōtois what also I parelabon, that Christos apethanen hyper the hamartiōn of us kata the graphas

Grammar Details

• *paredōka*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - delivered/handed over
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *prōtois*: dative, neuter, plural - first things/as of first importance
• *parelabon*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - received
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ/Anointed One
• *apethanen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - died
• *hyper*: preposition + genitive - for/on behalf of
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - sins
• *kata*: preposition + accusative - according to
• *graphas*: accusative, feminine, plural - scriptures/writings

Word Meanings

• *paredōka*: delivered/handed over/transmitted
• *gar*: for/because/indeed
• *prōtois*: among first things/as of first importance/as primary
• *parelabon*: received/took/was given
• *apethanen*: died/expired
• *hyper*: for/on behalf of/for the sake of/concerning
• *hamartiōn*: sins/failures/misdeeds
• *kata*: according to/in accordance with/in fulfillment of
• *graphas*: scriptures/writings/sacred texts

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For{G1063} I delivered{G3860} unto you{G5213} {G1722} first of all{G4413} that which{G3739} also{G2532} I{G3880} received:{G3880} that{G3754} Christ{G5547} died{G599} for{G5228} our{G2257} sins{G266} according to{G2596} the scriptures;{G1124}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For{G1063} I delivered{G3860}{(G5656)} unto you{G5213} first of all{G1722}{G4413} that which{G3739} I{G3880} also{G2532} received{G3880}{(G5627)}, how{G3754} that Christ{G5547} died{G599}{(G5627)} for{G5228} our{G2257} sins{G266} according{G2596} to the scriptures{G1124};

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For fyrst of all I delivered vnto you that which I receaved: how that Christ dyed for oure synnes agreinge to the scriptures:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For first of all I delyuered vnto you that which I also receaued, how that Christ dyed for oure synnes acordinge to the scriptures,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For first of all, I deliuered vnto you that which I receiued, how that Christ died for our sinnes, according to the Scriptures,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For first of all I deliuered vnto you, that which I receaued: howe that Christe dyed for our sinnes, agreeyng to the scriptures:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

• World English Bible (2000)

  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For I have received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread.
• Isa 53:1-9 : 1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he has no form or beauty; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him. 4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he does not open his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people he was stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge, my righteous servant shall justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
• Acts 26:22-23 : 22 Having therefore obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come: 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.
• Gal 1:4 : 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
• Gal 1:12 : 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 Searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
• Luke 24:26-27 : 26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Ezek 3:17 : 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
• Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.
• Matt 20:18-19 : 18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, 19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
• Mark 16:15-16 : 15 And he said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that does not believe shall be condemned.
• Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
• Ps 22:1-9 : 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But You are holy, O You who inhabit the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You delivered them. 5 They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not disappointed. 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted in the LORD that He would deliver him; let Him deliver him, since He delighted in him. 9 But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. 10 I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly. 11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I can count all my bones; they look and stare at me. 18 They divide my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing. 19 But do not be far from me, O LORD; O my strength, hurry to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth, for You have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen. 22 I will declare Your name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise You. 23 You who fear the LORD, praise Him; all you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him, all you offspring of Israel. 24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from him; but when he cried to Him, He heard. 25 My praise shall be of You in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before those who fear Him. 26 The humble shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever. 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s, and He is the governor among the nations. 29 All the prosperous of the earth shall eat and worship; all who go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive. 30 A posterity shall serve Him; it will be recounted to the Lord for a generation. 31 They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, that He has done this.
• Ps 69:1-9 : 1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored what I did not take away. 5 O God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you. 6 Let not those who wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed because of me; let not those who seek you be confounded because of me, O God of Israel. 7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. 8 I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children. 9 For the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me. 10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth my garment also, and I became a proverb to them. 12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards. 13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the floodwaters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me. 16 Hear me, O LORD, for your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. 17 And do not hide your face from your servant; for I am in trouble; hear me speedily. 18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies. 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you. 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 21 They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their dwelling place be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful; let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hooves. 32 The humble shall see this and be glad; and your heart shall live that seek God. 33 For the LORD hears the poor and does not despise his prisoners. 34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein. 35 For God will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and have it in possession. 36 The descendants also of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell therein.
• Luke 24:46-47 : 46 And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• John 1:29 : 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
• Acts 3:18 : 18 But those things which God beforehand has shown by the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
• Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
• Rom 4:25 : 25 Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
• 1 Cor 4:1-2 : 1 Let a man account of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.
• 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit;
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.'
• Eph 1:7 : 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;
• Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Heb 5:1 : 1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in matters related to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
• Heb 5:3 : 3 Because of this, he ought to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so also for himself.
• Heb 10:11-12 : 11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God;