1st Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 3 Holy Bible
For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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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;
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For I delivered to you, in the first place, what also I had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;
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For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
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for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - First of all; literally, among the first things; but this idiom means "first of all." It does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, but is found in Genesis 33:2; 2 Samuel 5:8 (LXX.). This testimony to the Resurrection is very remarkable, because: 1. It is the completest summary. 2. It refers to some incidents which are not mentioned in the Gospels. 3. It declares that the death and resurrection of Christ were a subject of ancient prophecy. . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) For I delivered . . .--Here follows the explanation and illustration of what he meant, in 1Corinthians 15:2, by "with what word I preached the gospel." We see here what the subject of apostolic teaching was--not indeed all the gospel that the Apostle taught, but what he considered of the first importance, and therefore put in the forefront of his teaching--viz., the historical fact of Christ's death for our sins, His burial, His resurrection. This was the first Creed of Christendom.For our sins.--Not only because of, but in behalf of our sins, in order to take them away (Galatians 1:4; 1Peter 2:24; 1John 3:5). The fact of the Atonement was not something evolved by the Apostle's own consciousness, but a fact revealed to him by Christ. (See 1Corinthians 11:23, and Note there.) . . .
