We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you.
Parallel translations
- WEB knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
- KJV Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
- BSB knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
- NKJV knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.
- NASB knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus, and will present us with you.
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Quick answer
Paul is sustained by the certainty of resurrection: the God who raised Jesus will raise believers too. This hope makes present suffering bearable.
Overview
The resurrection of Jesus is the ground and guarantee of the believer's future resurrection (cf. 1 Cor. 15:20). Paul anticipates being raised and presented together with the Corinthians before God, underscoring the corporate hope of the church. This certainty fuels his endurance, for death is not the end for those united to the risen Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Cor 6:14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
- Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
- Eph 5:27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
- 2 Cor 5:1–4For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- 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.
- 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- 1 Cor 15:20–22But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
- Col 1:28whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
- Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
- Col 1:22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
- 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.
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