But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
Parallel translations
- WEB But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”
- KJV But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
- NKJV But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”
- NASB But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?”
- NLT But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?”
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Quick answer
Paul raises the objection: how are the dead raised, and with what body? It matters because it opens his explanation of the nature of the resurrection body.
Overview
Anticipating skeptical questions, Paul voices the challenge about how resurrection is possible and what form it takes. Rather than dodging, he uses the questions to teach. The verse transitions from defending that resurrection happens to describing the transformed body believers will receive.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ezek 37:3Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”
- Phil 3:21who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
- 1 Cor 15:38–53But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
- Rom 9:19One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
- John 3:9“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
- John 9:10“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
- Job 11:12But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- Ps 73:11The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
- Eccl 11:5As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- John 3:4“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
- Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- Matt 22:29–30Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
- Ezek 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
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Christ crucified is the wisdom and power of God; he is our Passover sacrificed for us, the firstfruits of resurrection, the foundation on which everything is built.
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