King James Version
1 Corinthians 15:35 in the King James Version says “But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?” — study this verse from 1 Corinthians chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?”
1 Corinthians 15:35 · KJV
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“man will say”
G2046an alternate for g2036 in certain tenses; to utter, i.e., speak or say
“How”
G4459an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!
“are”
G1453to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e., rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from
“with what”
G4169individualizing interrogative (of character) what sort of, or (of number) which one
“body”
G4983the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively
“do they come”
G2064to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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