3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? …
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)It is the apostle’s business in this chapter to assert and establish the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which some of the Corinthians flatly denied, 1 Cor. 15:12. Whether they turned this doctrine into allegory, as did Hymeneus and Philetus, by saying it was already past (2 Tim. 2:17), and several of the ancient heretics, by making it mean no more than a changing of their course of life…
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