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God's Sovereign Power
Commentators stress that the resurrection, like the growth of a seed, is not a random natural event but a direct act of God's power and will. Just as God gives a specific plant body to each seed "as it has pleased him," He will give us our resurrection bodies according to His divine plan, demonstrating that nothing is impossible for Him.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:38
18th Century
Theologian
But God gives it a body. God gives to the seed sown its own proper body, formation, and growth. The word body here, as applied to…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:38
A body of its own (ιδιον σωμα). Even under the microscope the life cells or germ plasm may seem almost identical, but the plant is…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:37–38
19th Century
Bishop
God giveth it a body.—Here it is implied that, though the seed grows up, as we say, “in…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:37–38
19th Century
Preacher
Every person will have their own body. There will be differences and unique characteristics, just as there are here; and we will therefore know eac…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:38
Paul now answers the question some believers were asking: since a resurrection “body” (GK 5393) would be like the sinful mortal body we now have, h…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:38
17th Century
Pastor
But God gives it a body, as it has pleased him It is not the husbandman, nor the sun, nor the rain, that give the grain o…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 15:35–50
17th Century
Minister
- How are the dead raised up? That is, by what means? How can they be raised?
- Regarding the bodies that shall rise: will they be of th…