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1 Corinthians 15

1 Co. 15:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
now
nuni (Greek #3570)
just now
KJV usage: now.
Pronounce: noo-nee'
Origin: a prolonged form of 3568 for emphasis
isg Christ
Christos (Greek #5547)
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
KJV usage: Christ.
Pronounce: khris-tos'
Origin: from 5548
risen
egeiro (Greek #1453)
to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence)
KJV usage: awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up.
Pronounce: eg-i'-ro
Origin: probably akin to the base of 58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties)
from
ek (Greek #1537)
or ἐξ (ex) a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative; direct or remote)
KJV usage: after, among, X are, at, betwixt(-yond), by (the means of), exceedingly, (+ abundantly above), for(- th), from (among, forth, up), + grudgingly, + heartily, X heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in, ...ly, (because, by reason) of, off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X thenceforth, through, X unto, X vehemently, with(-out). Often used in composition, with the same general import; often of completion.
Pronounce: ek
the dead
nekros (Greek #3498)
dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun)
KJV usage: dead.
Pronounce: nek-ros'
Origin: from an apparently primary νέκυς (a corpse)
, and become
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
the firstfruits
aparche (Greek #536)
a beginning of sacrifice, i.e. the (Jewish) first-fruit (figuratively)
KJV usage: first-fruits .
Pronounce: ap-ar-khay'
Origin: from a compound of 575 and 756
h of them
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
that slept
koimao (Greek #2837)
to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease
KJV usage: (be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead.
Pronounce: koy-mah'-o
Origin: from 2749
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1 P. 1:3• 3Bendito el Dios y Padre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, que según su grande misericordia nos ha regenerado en esperanza viva, por la resurrección de Jesucristo de los muertos, (1 P. 1:3)
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Hch. 26:23• 23Que Cristo había de padecer, y ser el primero de la resurrección de los muertos, para anunciar luz al pueblo y á los Gentiles. (Hch. 26:23)
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Col. 1:18• 18Y él es la cabeza del cuerpo que es la iglesia; él que es el principio, el primogénito de los muertos, para que en todo tenga el primado. (Col. 1:18)
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Ap. 1:5• 5Y de Jesucristo, el testigo fiel, el primogénito de los muertos, y príncipe de los reyes de la tierra. Al que nos amó, y nos ha lavado de nuestros pecados con su sangre, (Ap. 1:5)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Co. 15:4‑8• 4Y que fué sepultado, y que resucitó al tercer día, conforme á las Escrituras;
 5Y que apareció á Cefas, y después á los doce.
 6Después apareció á más de quinientos hermanos juntos; de los cuales muchos viven aún, y otros son muertos.
 7Después apareció á Jacobo; después á todos los apóstoles.
 8Y el postrero de todos, como á un abortivo, me apareció á mí. (1 Co. 15:4‑8)
the first-fruits.
1 Co. 15:23• 23Mas cada uno en su orden: Cristo las primicias; luego los que son de Cristo, en su venida. (1 Co. 15:23)
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Hch. 26:23• 23Que Cristo había de padecer, y ser el primero de la resurrección de los muertos, para anunciar luz al pueblo y á los Gentiles. (Hch. 26:23)
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Ro. 8:11• 11Y si el Espíritu de aquel que levantó de los muertos á Jesús mora en vosotros, el que levantó á Cristo Jesús de los muertos, vivificará también vuestros cuerpos mortales por su Espíritu que mora en vosotros. (Ro. 8:11)
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Col. 1:18• 18Y él es la cabeza del cuerpo que es la iglesia; él que es el principio, el primogénito de los muertos, para que en todo tenga el primado. (Col. 1:18)
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1 P. 1:3• 3Bendito el Dios y Padre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, que según su grande misericordia nos ha regenerado en esperanza viva, por la resurrección de Jesucristo de los muertos, (1 P. 1:3)
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Ap. 1:5• 5Y de Jesucristo, el testigo fiel, el primogénito de los muertos, y príncipe de los reyes de la tierra. Al que nos amó, y nos ha lavado de nuestros pecados con su sangre, (Ap. 1:5)
• He is said to be, as He was, raised from out of (ἐκ) dead men, as His saints will be at His coming or presence. In either case it is not only ἀνάστασις νεκρῶν, but ἐκ νεκρῶν (that is, resurrection of, but from among dead men), because in both cases other dead remain in their graves (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 15:20-28” by W. Kelly)
• Here He is viewed as man who has undergone death; and God intervenes, that He may not remain in it, because here the object is, not to show forth the glory of the Lord’s Person, but to prove our resurrection, since He, a dead man, has been raised. (“1 Corinthians 15” by J.N. Darby)
• Here He is viewed, not in His power to raise His enemies for judgment, but as the blessed spring of the resurrection of His own, firstfruits of those fallen asleep. Consequently He is said to be, as He was, raised from out of (ἐκ) dead men, as His saints will be at His coming or presence. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 15:20-28” by W. Kelly)
• Resurrection from among the dead is also called “the first resurrection” (Rev. 20:5) and “the resurrection of the just” (Luke 14:14) and involves righteous persons only. There are at least ten accounts in Scripture of persons being raised from the dead, but none of them were of the order of the first resurrection (1 Kings 17:21-22; 2 Kings 4:34-36; 2 Kings 13:20-21; Matt. 9:24-25; 27:52-53; Luke 7:11-15; John 11:38-44; Acts 9:36-41; 14:19-20; 20:9-12). Those who will rise from among the dead at the first resurrection will rise in a glorified condition (Phil 3:21). Each of these ten mentioned accounts of persons who were raised from the dead, died again, and await resurrection. (“9) Failure to Maintain Sound Doctrine” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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(But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.

W. Kelly Translation

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But now is Christ raised from [the] deada, firstfruitb of those fallen asleep.

WK Translation Notes

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a
T. R. adds "he became," contrary to many MSS.
b
The T. R. adds "He became."