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Sober Up from Bad Ideas
Commentators explain that Paul's command to "awake" uses a Greek word that means to sober up from a drunken stupor. He saw the Corinthians as intoxicated by the false teaching that there is no resurrection. This doctrinal error was leading them into a spiritual haze and careless living. The call is to "awake righteously"—to shake off this intoxicating error and regain clear, sober thinking focused on God's truth.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:34
18th Century
Theologian
Awake to righteousness. (See Barnes on Romans 13:11).
The word here translated "awake" properly denotes waking up from a deep sleep…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake up righteously (εκνηψατε δικαιως). Wake up as if from drunkenness. Εκνηφω, only here in N.T. sin not (μη αμαρτανετε). Stop s…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:34
19th Century
Bishop
Awake to righteousness, and sin not.—Literally, Awake to soberness in a righteous manner. With this earnest call to arouse from t…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:33–35
19th Century
Preacher
You know the almost endless questions that may be asked about this matter, and you know the snares into which a man may fall if he begins curiously…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:34
Paul calls for the Corinthians to stop sinning in denying the resurrection of the dead and, by implication, the resurrection of Christ—a denial tha…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 15:34
16th Century
Theologian
Awake righteously. Since he saw that the Corinthians were, in a way, intoxicated through excessive carelessness, he rouses them from their…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:34
17th Century
Pastor
Awake to righteousness, and sin not The apostle represents the Corinthians as inebriated with bad principles and notions,…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 15:20–34
17th Century
Minister
All who are by faith united to Christ are by His resurrection assured of their own resurrection. Just as through the sin of the first Adam all huma…