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.
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:
- BSB It is sown in dishonor; 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;
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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, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
- Phil 3:20–21For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Cor 6:14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
- Matt 22:29–30But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
- 2 Cor 13:4For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
- Mark 12:24–25Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
- Dan 12:1“At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
- Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
- Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
- Phil 3:10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
- Ps 102:23He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
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