1 Corinthians 15:12
No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
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Referenced Verses
- Acts 23:8 : 8 (For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
- 2 Tim 2:18 : 18 They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.
- Acts 17:32 : 32 Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”
- Acts 26:8 : 8 Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?
- 1 Cor 15:13-19 : 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty. 15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins. 18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. 19 For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.
- 2 Thess 2:17 : 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.
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13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
19 For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
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35 The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
- 1 Cor 15:3-64 verses77%
3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
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11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.
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29 Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?
- 1 Cor 15:42-443 verses76%
42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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32 Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”
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30 But God raised him from the dead,
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10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.
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11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying,“This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”
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13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.
15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.
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15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
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14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”
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8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
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9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
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18 They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.
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8 Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?
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6 Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.
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32 If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
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5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.
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25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
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12 As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
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6 But he said to them,“Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.
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37 but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.
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31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,
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14 We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.
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32 This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.
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6 He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
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1 Christ’s Resurrection Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,
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18 Marriage and the Resurrection Sadducees(who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,
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15 You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!