1st Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 12 Holy Bible
Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?
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Now if Christ is preached that he is raised from among [the] dead, how say some among you that there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead?
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Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 12-19. - The resurrection of Christ is the basis of our faith in the general resurrection. Verse 12. - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead. St. Paul sees that if One has risen from the dead, the fact of that miracle, taken in connection with the rest of the gospel, furnishes Christians with a sufficient proof that they shall rise. "For," he had already said to the Thessalonians, "if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him" (see the same argument in Romans 8:11). That there is no resurrection of the dead. These deniers of the resurrection are usually called "the Corinthian Sadducees." After the state of social and moral laxity of which we have been reading, we can scarcely be surprised at the existence of any disorder or anomaly in the Church of Corinth. Yet it comes with something of a shock on our paralyzed sense of astonishment to read that some of these Christians actually denied a resurrection! The fact at once proves two remarkable truths, namely, (1) that the early Christian Church had none of the ideal purity of doctrine which is sometimes ecclesiastically attributed to it; and (2) that there was in the bosom of that Church a wide and most forbearing tolerance. We have no data to enable us to determine what were the influences which led to the denial of the resurrection. 1. They can hardly have been Jewish. The mass of Jews at this time shared the views of the Pharisees, who strongly maintained the resurrection (Acts 23:6). If they were Jews at all, they could only have been Sadducees or Essenes. But . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead.--Better, is being preached. It has been proved as a matter of historical fact that a man has risen from the dead; it is therefore illogical to say that there is no resurrection of the dead.
