1 Corinthians 15:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

1 Corinthians 15:23 —

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Galatians 3:29
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
2 Corinthians 10:7
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

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Body Dead (people)Decision First Fruits Hades Harvest Immortality Jesus, the Christ

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-34)

In this passage the apostle establishes the truth of the resurrection of the dead, the holy dead, the dead in Christ, I. On the resurrection of Christ. 1. Because he is indeed the first-fruits of those that slept, 1 Cor. 15:20. He has truly risen himself, and he has risen in this very quality and character, as the first-fruits of those who sleep in him. As he has assuredly risen, so in his resurre…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. But every man in his own order--rather, “rank”: the Greek is not in the abstract, but concrete: image from troops, “each in his own regiment.” Though all shall rise again, let not any think all shall be saved; nay, each shall have his proper place, Christ first (Col 1:18), and after Him the godly who die in Christ (1Th 4:16), in a separate band from the ungodly, and then “the end,” that is, th…