1 Corinthians 15:34

Paul calls them to wake up to righteousness and stop sinning, shaming their ignorance of God. It matters because doctrinal error had moral and spiritual consequences.

Cross-references · 13

• 1 Cor 6:5I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
• Rom 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• Heb 5:11–12About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
• Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• 1 Cor 8:7However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
• Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• John 8:11She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
• John 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
• Jonah 1:6So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
• Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
• 1 Th 4:5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

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