What Does 1 Corinthians 6:14 Mean?

And God raised the Lord, and will raise us through his strength.

1 Corinthians 6:14 · SDV

Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.

Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.

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And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

THE KEY

The same raising word-family that names the Lord’s completed resurrection also names the raising God promises for you.

THE MEANING

The God who has raised the Lord is also the one who will raise you by his own power. Your body is included in that future; death does not have the final word over embodied life.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The body is disposable, and death has the final claim over it.

THE ROOT

ἤγειρεν

ēgeiren exegerei

GROWS FROM

ἐγείρω

egeirō

To wake, rouse, or raise.

“raised” in this verse is ēgeiren exegerei. The Greek uses forms from ⁨ἐγείρω⁩ (egeirō, to wake or raise) for the Lord’s completed raising and the raising promised for us. The future form adds ⁨ἐκ⁩ (ek, out), while keeping the shared raising stem that joins the two.

ALSO GROWS

egersis: Rising; resurrection.

ἔγερσις

Matthew 27:53 uses this related noun for Jesus’ resurrection, showing the same word-family in the name of the rising itself.

ēgerthē: He was raised; he is risen.

ἠγέρθη

The word used in Matthew 28:6 belongs to the same family and names the raising as an accomplished act.

THE PATTERN

God’s life-giving power raises people from the grave and carries embodied life beyond death.

O LORD, you brought up my living soul from Sheol. You kept me alive from those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 30:3 · SDVThe psalm speaks of God bringing a person up from the grave and preserving their life.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so the Son makes alive whomever he wills.

John 5:21 · SDVLife crosses the boundary of death through the Father’s and Son’s power to raise the dead.

But if the breath of him who raised Jesus from the dead makes its home in you, then he who raised the Anointed One from the dead will also make your death-bound bodies alive through his breath that makes its home in you.

Romans 8:11 · SDVThe power that raised Jesus reaches the reader’s mortal body with life.

THE THREAD

Knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also through Jesus, and will stand us beside you.

2 Corinthians 4:14 · SDV

This verse repeats the same movement: the Lord is raised, and we are raised too. The shared raising word-family makes the promise one continuous act of God, reaching from Jesus to us.

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