1 Corinthians 15:21
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
KJV
ἐπειδὴ γὰρ δι’ ἀνθρώπου θάνατος, καὶ δι’ ἀνθρώπου ἀνάστασις νεκρῶν·
Greek NT
quoniam quidem per hominem mors, et per hominem resurrectio mortuorum.
Vulgate
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
ASV
For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the dead.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
θάνατος
thanatos
noun · 120×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νεκρός
nekros
adjective · 128×
ἀνάστασις
anastasis
noun · 42×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐπειδή
epeide
conjunction · 10×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: θάνατος | WH/Treg/NIV: θάνατος | RP: ὁ θάνατος
- θάνατος — SBLGNT
- θάνατος — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὁ θάνατος — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 23.—What We are to Understand by the Animal and Spiritual Body; Or of Those Who Die in Adam, And of Those Who are Made Alive in Christ. For as those bodies of ours, that have a living soul, though not as yet a quickening spirit, are called soul-informed bodies, and yet are not souls but bodies, so also those bodies are called spiritual,—yet God forbid we should therefor…
55. To give a witness then, and for our sakes to undergo death, to raise man up and destroy the works of the devil , the Saviour came, and this is the reason of His incarnate presence. For otherwise a resurrection had not been, unless there had been death; and how had death been, unless He had had a mortal body? This the Apostle, learning from Him, thus sets forth, 'Forasmuch t…
Heidelberg Catechism · 3 passages
Q. What kind of mediator and deliverer should we look for then? A. One who is truly human and truly righteous, yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God.
Q. Why must the mediator be truly human and truly righteous? A. God's justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must pay for its sin; but a sinner could never pay for others.
Q. How does Christ's resurrection benefit us? A. First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he might make us share in the righteousness he won for us by his death. Second, by his power we too are already now raised to a new life. Third, Christ's resurrection is a guarantee of our glorious resurrection.
Moreover we proclaim the holy Virgin to be in strict truth the Mother of God. For inasmuch as He who was born of her was true God, she who bare the true God incarnate is the true mother of God. For we hold that God was born of her, not implying that the divinity of the Word received from her the beginning of its being, but meaning that God the Word Himself, Who was begotten of …
He therefore was Himself the Word of God made the Son of man, receiving from the Father the power over all things, inasmuch as He was Man as well as God, in order that as by man death entered into the world, so also by man might the resurrection from the dead be proclaimed. See 1 Cor. xv. 21. And therefore the Lord declared that the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath. See Matt. …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:22 — For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
- Gen 3:19 — In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Gen 5:5 — And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
- Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
- John 11:25 — Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
- Phil 3:10 — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
- Rev 20:12 — And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were writte
- Rom 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
- Rom 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
- Rom 5:17 — For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
- Rom 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.