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Commentators explain that this verse draws a powerful parallel. Just as our connection to Adam guarantees we have a frail, mortal, 'earthy' body, our connection to Christ guarantees we will one day have a glorious, immortal, 'heavenly' body like His. This is a certain promise of future transformation, not just a hope.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:49
18th Century
Theologian
And as we have borne the image of the earthy. As, like our first father, we are frail, decaying, dying; as we are so closely connected wit…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:49
We shall also bear (φορεσομεν κα). Old MSS. (so Westcott and Hort) read φορεσωμεν κα. Volitive aorist active subjunctive, Let us a…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:49
19th Century
Bishop
We shall also bear the image of the heavenly.—Better, let us bear also the image of the heavenly. This is the reading of …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:49–51
19th Century
Preacher
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cann…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:49
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 Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 15:49
16th Century
Theologian
As we have borne Some have thought that this is an exhortation to a pious and holy life, into which Paul digressed; and for that reason, t…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:49
17th Century
Pastor
And as we have borne the image of the earthy
Which regards not so much the sinful image of the first man upon the so…
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…