1 Corinthians 15:44

1 Corinthians 15:44

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42 ^aSo also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

43 ^aIt 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. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

45 And so it is written, ^a“The first man Adam became a living being.” ^bThe last Adam became ^ca life-giving spirit.

46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.

47 ^aThe first man was of the earth, ^bmade of dust; the second Man is² the Lord ^cfrom heaven.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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A natural body (swma yuxikon). See on I Corinthians 2:14 for this word, a difficult one to translate since yuxh has so many meanings. Natural is probably as good a rendering as can be made, but it is not adequate, for the body here is not all yuxh either as soul or life. The same difficulty exists as to a spiritual body (swma pneumatikon). The resurrection body is not wholly pneuma. Caution is needed here in filling out details concerning the yuxh and the pneuma. But certainly he means to say that the "spiritual body" has some kind of germinal connection with the "natural body," though the development is glorious beyond our comprehension though not beyond the power of Christ to perform (Philippians 3:21). The force of the argument remains unimpaired though we cannot follow fully into the thought beyond us.

If there is (ei estin). "If there exists" (estin means this with accent on first syllable), a condition of first class assumed as true.

There is also (estin kai). There exists also.

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