1 Corinthians 15:43
they are sown in dishonor, they arise in glory: they are sown in weakness, they arise in power:
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
In Context
42So also in the reviviscence of the dead. They are sown in corruption, they arise without corruption:
Cross References
Matthew 13:43Then will the righteous shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark 12:24Jesus said to them: Is it not on this account that ye err, because ye understand not the scriptures, nor the power of God?
2 Corinthians 13:4For, though he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth with the power of God. We also are weak with him; yet we are alive with him, by that power of God which is among you.
Philippians 3:10that thereby I might know Jesus, and the efficacy of his resurrection; and might participate in his sufferings, and be assimilated to his death:
Colossians 3:4And when the Messiah, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also be manifested with him in glory.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:36-51
The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,… Read the whole commentary →