1 Corinthians 15 Bible study: Not in vain

Favor's introduction to 1 Corinthians begins a new part of the letter here, Christ died for our sins. The chapter opens, "Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand" (15:1), and goes on, "by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain." (15:2). Then it gives what it delivered "first of all": "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures" (15:3), "that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (15:4), "and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve." (15:5). The list goes on: "Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep." (15:6) (tap asleep), "Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles" (15:7), "and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also." (15:8). The list is the letter's own. These notes set it beside no other telling, and say no more of anyone in it than its words. The letter's I goes on, "For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God." (15:9), and "But by the grace of God I am what I am." (15:10). The part ends, "Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed." (15:11).

Genesis 2:7→leads to1 Corinthians 15:45

Paul quotes this verse, "The first man Adam became a living soul", and adds, "The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." In Romans he calls Adam "a foreshadowing of him who was to come". The first man received life; Jesus gives it.

ἐγείρωegeirosay eg-EE-ro

Strong's: "to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse", and "from death" is among the senses it lists. "But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised." (15:13): behind raised is this verb. 1 Corinthians has it 20 times, 19 of them in this chapter (counted in RP2018), where the WEB gives it as raised or raise up. Favor's Mark 16 studies it at the tomb. Acts has it in "Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?" (Acts 26:8).