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Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord`s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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Doctrine Fuels Duty
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is the practical application of the entire chapter. The profound doctrine of the resurrection isn't just for intellectual belief; its purpose is to fuel present-day action. As scholar Charles Ellicott notes, Christianity never separates the life that now is from the life that is to come. The glorious hope of a future resurrection directly motivates our faithfulness and service today.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore, my beloved brethren. In view of the great and glorious truths that have been revealed to us regarding the resurrection, Paul cl…
Be ye steadfast, unmovable (εδραιο γινεσθε, αμετακινητο). "Keep on becoming steadfast, unshaken." Let the sceptics howl and rage. …
19th Century
Anglican
Therefore.—Because all this is so—because there is a life hereafter—let this life here be worthy of it. You might grow weak and fa…
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Baptist
But we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be rai…
Paul now comes to the conclusion of his argument for the resurrection. God’s people must have more than the natural body to inherit the eternal kin…
16th Century
Protestant
Therefore, my brothers, having satisfied himself that he had sufficiently proven the doctrine of the resurrection, he now closes his discu…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore my beloved brethren This is the conclusion of the whole, and contains the use the apostle makes of the abo…
Not all saints will die, but all will be changed. In the gospel, many truths, previously hidden in mystery, are made known. Death will never appear…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle establishes the necessary effect of the resurrection proceeding from its cause. Concerning this, he establishes two points corresp…
