It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
Parallel translations
- WEB It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
- KJV It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
- NKJV It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
- NASB it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
- NLT Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength.
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Quick answer
Sown in dishonor and weakness, the body is raised in glory and power. It matters because resurrection reverses the indignity and frailty of death.
Overview
Paul continues the contrasts between the buried and the raised body. What is laid in the ground in humiliation and helplessness will rise in splendor and strength. These transformations assure believers that the weakness of mortal life will give way to glorious, powerful resurrection life.
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Cross-references · 12
- Col 3:4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
- Phil 3:20–21But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Cor 6:14By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
- Matt 22:29–30Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
- 2 Cor 13:4For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. And though we are weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him to serve you.
- Mark 12:24–25Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
- Dan 12:1“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
- Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Phil 3:10I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,
- Ps 102:23He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.
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