1 Corinthians 15:23
But each in his own rank: [the] first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.
Cross References
Isaiah 26:19Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:20(But now Christ is raised from among [the] dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.
2 Corinthians 10:7Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we.
Galatians 5:24But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
1 Thessalonians 4:15(For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:21-35
The Resurrection of Christ; The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he… Read the whole commentary →