1 Corinthians 15:51 Cross References - Mace

⁵¹ I shall now tell you a very great secret: we shall not all of us sleep, but we shall all be changed,

⁷ but we explain that mysterious plan of divine wisdom, which God had contriv'd before the ages, for our glory:

¹ Let men consider us, as the ministers of Christ, who dispense the divine mysteries.

² and tho' I should have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and tho' I had all the faith necessary to remove mountains, and had no benevolence, it would signify nothing.

⁶ after that, he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain alive to this day, but some are now dead.

¹⁸ then they too who died christians, are entirely lost.

²⁰ But Christ is actually risen, as previous to those who were dead.

⁹ for he has discover'd to us the secret of his will, that out of his meer good pleasure, he had purposed in himself,

³ having revealed to me the secret, I now mention'd in short,

³² these words contain a very mystical sense, I mean in reference to Christ and the church.

²¹ it is he, that will change our vile body into a like form with his glorious body, by displaying that power which is able to subdue all things unto himself.

¹⁴ for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him. ¹⁵ for one thing I have in charge to tell you from the Lord, that we, who shall be found still alive at the coming of the Lord, shall not get the advance of those that are dead: ¹⁶ for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and by the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, resound the summons: they who died christians shall rise first: ¹⁷ then we, who shall be still alive, shall be convey'd together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall ever be with the Lord.