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We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_corinthians/15.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I tell to you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/15.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_corinthians/15.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_corinthians/15.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I am telling you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/15.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_corinthians/15.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_corinthians/15.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Listen very carefully, I tell you a mystery [a secret truth decreed by God and previously hidden, but now revealed]; we will not all sleep [in death], but we will all be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed],<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Listen! I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_corinthians/15.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_corinthians/15.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I will explain a mystery to you. Not every one of us will die, but we will all be changed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_corinthians/15.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_corinthians/15.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I'm telling you a mystery. Not all of us will die, but we will all be changed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_corinthians/15.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Let me tell you a secret. Not all of us will die, but all of us will be changed— <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_corinthians/15.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_corinthians/15.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Look, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_corinthians/15.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/15.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_corinthians/15.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_corinthians/15.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a secret: we indeed will not all sleep, but we will all be changed;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I tell to you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_corinthians/15.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_corinthians/15.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Behold, I speak to you a mystery; We truly shall not all be laid asleep, but we shall all be changed,<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_corinthians/15.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery. Certainly, we shall all rise again, but we shall not all be transformed:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/15.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_corinthians/15.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_corinthians/15.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_corinthians/15.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be transformed,<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/1_corinthians/15.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />Behold, I declare to you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/1_corinthians/15.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />Behold, I speak to you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/1_corinthians/15.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not indeed all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/1_corinthians/15.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />I shall now tell you a very great secret: we shall not all of us sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/15.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/1_corinthians/15.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/1_corinthians/15.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed in a moment,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-wZWoK_LZU?start=3658" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/15.htm">Where, O Death, is Your Victory?</a></span><br><span class="reftext">50</span>Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. <span class="reftext">51</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/2400.htm" title="2400: Idou (V-AMA-2S) -- See! Lo! Behold! Look! Second person singular imperative middle voice of eido; used as imperative lo!">Listen,</a> <a href="/greek/3004.htm" title="3004: legō (V-PIA-1S) -- (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. ">I tell</a> <a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymin (PPro-D2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">you</a> <a href="/greek/3466.htm" title="3466: mystērion (N-ANS) -- From a derivative of muo; a secret or mystery.">a mystery:</a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ou (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.">We will not</a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pantes (Adj-NMP) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.">all</a> <a href="/greek/2837.htm" title="2837: koimēthēsometha (V-FIP-1P) -- From keimai; to put to sleep, i.e. to slumber; figuratively, to decease.">sleep,</a> <a href="/greek/1161.htm" title="1161: de (Conj) -- A primary particle; but, and, etc.">but</a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pantes (Adj-NMP) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole."></a> <a href="/greek/236.htm" title="236: allagēsometha (V-FIP-1P) -- To change, alter, exchange, transform. From allos; to make different.">we will all be changed—</a> </span> <span class="reftext">52</span>in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-16.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:16-17</a></span><br />For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. / After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/3-20.htm">Philippians 3:20-21</a></span><br />But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, / who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-11.htm">Romans 8:11</a></span><br />And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/11-25.htm">John 11:25-26</a></span><br />Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. / And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-31.htm">Matthew 24:31</a></span><br />And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/11-15.htm">Revelation 11:15</a></span><br />Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/12-2.htm">Daniel 12:2</a></span><br />And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Isaiah 26:19</a></span><br />Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/37-12.htm">Ezekiel 37:12-14</a></span><br />Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. / Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. / I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/19-25.htm">Job 19:25-27</a></span><br />But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. / Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. / I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/5-28.htm">John 5:28-29</a></span><br />Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice / and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/20-35.htm">Luke 20:35-36</a></span><br />But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage. / In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-1.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1-4</a></span><br />For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. / For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, / because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/3-2.htm">1 John 3:2</a></span><br />Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/20-12.htm">Revelation 20:12-13</a></span><br />And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. / The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,</p><p class="hdg">I shew.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/2-7.htm">1 Corinthians 2:7</a></b></br> But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, <i>even</i> the hidden <i>wisdom</i>, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/4-1.htm">1 Corinthians 4:1</a></b></br> Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/13-2.htm">1 Corinthians 13:2</a></b></br> And though I have <i>the gift of</i> prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.</p><p class="hdg">We shall not.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/15-6.htm">1 Corinthians 15:6,18,20</a></b></br> After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-14.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:14-17</a></b></br> For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him… </p><p class="hdg">changed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/philippians/3-21.htm">Philippians 3:21</a></b></br> Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_corinthians/15-20.htm">Asleep</a> <a href="/romans/12-2.htm">Changed</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-50.htm">Death</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-25.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/8-7.htm">Hitherto</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-11.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/2-7.htm">Mystery</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-30.htm">Revelation</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-2.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-31.htm">Shew</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-31.htm">Show</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-30.htm">Sleep</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-15.htm">Truth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-13.htm">Asleep</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">Changed</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">Death</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-3.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/ephesians/3-3.htm">Hitherto</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-9.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-9.htm">Mystery</a> <a href="/galatians/1-12.htm">Revelation</a> <a href="/galatians/4-24.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-7.htm">Shew</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/16-16.htm">Show</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-27.htm">Sleep</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-13.htm">Truth</a><div class="vheading2">1 Corinthians 15</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-1.htm">By Christ's resurrection,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-12.htm">he proves the necessity of our resurrection, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-16.htm">against all such as deny the resurrection of the body.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-21.htm">The fruit,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">35. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-35.htm">and the manner thereof;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">51. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">and of the resurrection of those who shall be found alive at the last day.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the New Testament, mysteries are truths that were not fully understood in the Old Testament but are made clear through Christ and the apostles. Here, Paul is about to reveal a truth about the end times and the resurrection. This aligns with other New Testament passages where mysteries are disclosed, such as <a href="/ephesians/3-3.htm">Ephesians 3:3-6</a>, where the mystery of the Gentiles being fellow heirs is revealed.<p><b>We will not all sleep:</b><br>"Sleep" is a euphemism for death used in the New Testament, reflecting the temporary nature of death for believers. This phrase indicates that not all Christians will experience physical death before the return of Christ. This concept is consistent with <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-15.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:15-17</a>, where Paul explains that those who are alive at Christ's coming will not precede those who have died. The use of "sleep" emphasizes the hope of resurrection and eternal life.<p><b>but we will all be changed—</b><br>The change refers to the transformation of believers' bodies at the resurrection. This transformation is necessary for believers to inherit the kingdom of God, as flesh and blood cannot inherit it (<a href="/1_corinthians/15-50.htm">1 Corinthians 15:50</a>). This change is described further in <a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">1 Corinthians 15:52</a>, where it is said to happen "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." The transformation is a fulfillment of the promise of new, glorified bodies, as also mentioned in <a href="/philippians/3-21.htm">Philippians 3:21</a>, where Christ will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a></b><br>The author of 1 Corinthians, addressing the church in Corinth. Paul is explaining a profound truth about the resurrection and the transformation of believers.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_church_in_corinth.htm">The Church in Corinth</a></b><br>The recipients of this letter, a diverse group of early Christians living in a cosmopolitan city known for its moral challenges and philosophical diversity.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_resurrection.htm">The Resurrection</a></b><br>The event Paul is describing, where believers will be transformed at the return of Christ.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_mystery.htm">The Mystery</a></b><br>A divine truth previously hidden but now revealed by Paul, concerning the transformation of believers.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_transformation.htm">The Transformation</a></b><br>The change that will occur to believers, both living and dead, at the return of Christ.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_the_mystery.htm">Understanding the Mystery</a></b><br>The term "mystery" (Greek: myst?rion) refers to a divine truth revealed by God. Believers are called to embrace this revealed truth with faith and anticipation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_certainty_of_transformation.htm">The Certainty of Transformation</a></b><br>Paul assures believers that not all will "sleep" (a euphemism for death), but all will be changed. This transformation is certain and should be a source of hope.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/living_in_expectation.htm">Living in Expectation</a></b><br>Knowing that we will be changed should impact how we live today. We are called to live in holiness and readiness for Christ's return.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_the_face_of_death.htm">Hope in the Face of Death</a></b><br>The promise of transformation provides comfort and hope, even in the face of death. Believers can face mortality with confidence in God's promise.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/unity_in_christ's_return.htm">Unity in Christ's Return</a></b><br>The transformation applies to all believers, emphasizing the unity and equality of all in Christ, regardless of their earthly status or condition.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_corinthians_15.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Corinthians 15</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_1_thess._4_17_fit_with_science.htm">How can the “rapture” in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 be reconciled with modern science and the laws of physics? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_rapture.htm">What does the Bible say about the Secret Rapture?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/bible's_view_on_rapture,_tribulation.htm">What does the Bible say about Rapture and Tribulation?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/are_you_prepared_for_the_rapture.htm">Are you prepared for the Rapture?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_corinthians/15.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(51) <span class= "bld">Behold, I shew you a mystery.</span>--It is better to take these words as referring to what follows rather than (as some have done) to the preceding statement. A mystery means something which up to this time has been kept concealed, but is now made manifest (<a href="/romans/11-25.htm" title="For I would not, brothers, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.">Romans 11:25</a>; <a href="/context/ephesians/3-3.htm" title="How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote before in few words,">Ephesians 3:3-5</a>).<p><span class= "bld">We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be Changed.</span>--There are here a considerable variety of readings in the Greek, but the text from which our English version is taken is probably correct. The Apostle believed that the end of the world might come in the lifetime of some then living. We shall not all, he says, necessarily sleep, but we shall all be changed. The change from the earthly to the spiritual body is absolutely necessary. To some it will come through the ordinary process of death; to those who are alive at Christ's advent it will come suddenly, and in a moment. The dead shall be raised, but we (the living) shall be changed.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_corinthians/15.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 51.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I show you a mystery.</span> I make known to you a truth now made known to me by revelation. <span class="cmt_word">We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.</span> There is a great diversity of readings in this verse, noticed even by St. Jerome and St. Augustine. St. Jerome says that all the Latin manuscripts had "we shall all rise," and that the Greek manuscripts wavered between "we shall all sleep" and "we shall not all sleep." Some Greek manuscripts had "we shall all rise, but we shall not all be changed." This reading cannot be right, for it contradicts the next verse. There is little doubt that the reading of the Authorized version is right. It accounts for all the variations. They arose from a desire to shelter St. Paul from an apparent mistake, since he and his readers <span class="accented">did</span> all sleep. But <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> St. Paul may have written under that conception of the imminence of Christ's personal return which he expresses in <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-15.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:15-17</a>, where he evidently imagines that the majority of those to whom he was writing would be of those who would be "alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord;" or <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> even if he no longer entertained that expectation, the "we" may naturally apply to the continuity of the Christian Church. For in <a href="/2_corinthians/4-14.htm">2 Corinthians 4:14</a> he uses "us" of those who shall die and be raised. The universal expectation of the immediate return of Christ in the first century rose <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> from their non apprehension of the truth that the close of the old dispensation <span class="accented">was</span> the "coming" to which our Lord had primarily referred in his great eschatological discourse (<a href="/matthew/24-34.htm">Matthew 24:34</a>), and . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">Listen,</span><br /><span class="grk">Ἰδοὺ</span> <span class="translit">(Idou)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2400.htm">Strong's 2400: </a> </span><span class="str2">See! Lo! Behold! Look! Second person singular imperative middle voice of eido; used as imperative lo!</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I tell</span><br /><span class="grk">λέγω</span> <span class="translit">(legō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3004.htm">Strong's 3004: </a> </span><span class="str2">(a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">you</span><br /><span class="grk">ὑμῖν</span> <span class="translit">(hymin)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> </span><span class="str2">You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a mystery:</span><br /><span class="grk">μυστήριον</span> <span class="translit">(mystērion)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3466.htm">Strong's 3466: </a> </span><span class="str2">From a derivative of muo; a secret or 'mystery'.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">{We will} not</span><br /><span class="grk">οὐ</span> <span class="translit">(ou)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3756.htm">Strong's 3756: </a> </span><span class="str2">No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="grk">πάντες</span> <span class="translit">(pantes)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3956.htm">Strong's 3956: </a> </span><span class="str2">All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">sleep,</span><br /><span class="grk">κοιμηθησόμεθα</span> <span class="translit">(koimēthēsometha)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 1st Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2837.htm">Strong's 2837: </a> </span><span class="str2">From keimai; to put to sleep, i.e. to slumber; figuratively, to decease.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but</span><br /><span class="grk">δὲ</span> <span class="translit">(de)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1161.htm">Strong's 1161: </a> </span><span class="str2">A primary particle; but, and, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">we will all be changed—</span><br /><span class="grk">ἀλλαγησόμεθα</span> <span class="translit">(allagēsometha)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 1st Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_236.htm">Strong's 236: </a> </span><span class="str2">To change, alter, exchange, transform. From allos; to make different.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">1 Corinthians 15:51 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_corinthians/15-51.htm">NT Letters: 1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold I tell you a mystery (1 Cor. 1C iC 1Cor i cor icor) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-50.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Corinthians 15:50"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 15:50" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Corinthians 15:52"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 15:52" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>