But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?”
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?
- BSB But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will 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?”
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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 37:3He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.
- Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
- 1 Cor 15:38–53But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
- Rom 9:19You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
- John 3:9Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
- John 9:10They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
- Job 11:12An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
- Ps 73:11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
- Eccl 11:5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
- John 3:4Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
- Job 22:13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
- Matt 22:29–30But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
- Ezek 37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean 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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