Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
- KJV And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
- BSB By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
- NKJV And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
- NLT And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
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Quick answer
God raised the Lord and will also raise us by His power. It matters because the future resurrection of our bodies shows they have eternal value and belong to God.
Overview
Against any view that the body is unimportant, Paul appeals to the resurrection: God raised Jesus bodily and will raise believers too. The body is not destined for destruction but for glorification. This eternal destiny grounds his insistence that we honor God with our bodies now, since they will share in Christ's resurrection life.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- 2 Cor 4:14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
- Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
- Eph 1:19–20and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
- 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.
- Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- Rom 6:4–8We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
- John 6:39–40This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
- 1 Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
- Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
- Phil 3:10–11that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
- John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
- 1 Cor 15:23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
- 1 Cor 15:15–20Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
- John 5:28–29Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
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