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INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies, book or topical, found here, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, lexicons, concordances or commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, but they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and the New Testament for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc. There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

1 Corinthians Chapter 15: THE GOSPEL, FROM PAUL, TO CORINTH-AND US

CORINTH: RICH GREEK CITY/STATE

(Acts 18:1 [KJV])
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

(Acts 18:8 [KJV])
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

(Acts 19:1,2 [KJV])
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

(1 Corinthians 1:2 [KJV])
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

(2 Corinthians 1:1 [KJV])
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

(2 Corinthians 1:23 [KJV])
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

(2 Corinthians 6:11 [KJV])
O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

(2 Timothy 4:20 [KJV])
Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.

1 CORINTHIANS 15: THE GOSPEL, THE RESURRECTION AND CORRECTING ERROR

(Galatians 6:7 [KJV])
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

(2 Timothy 2:15,16 [KJV])
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

(1 Corinthians 15:1 [KJV])
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

WHEREIN WE STAND

(Exodus 14:13 [KJV])
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

(Leviticus 26:37 [KJV])
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

(Numbers 9:8 [KJV])
And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

(1 Samuel 12:16 [KJV])
Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.

(Ephesians 6:11 [KJV])
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

(Ephesians 6:13 [KJV])
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

(1 Corinthians 15:2 [KJV])
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

(1 Corinthians 15:3 [KJV])
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

(Genesis 3:15 [KJV])
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

(Daniel 9:26 [KJV])
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

HOW PAUL RECEIVED THE GOSPEL

(Galatians 1:1 [KJV])
Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

(Galatians 1:11, 12 [KJV])
But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

(Galatians 1:15-24 [KJV])
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
And they glorified God in me.

(Acts 9:1-6 [KJV])
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

(Acts 22:5-16 [KJV])
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.
And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus. And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there, Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him. And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

(Galatians 2:1 [KJV])
Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST

(Matthew 27:58-60 [KJV])
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

(Luke 23:53 [KJV])
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

(John 19:32-37 [KJV])
Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

(Numbers 9:10-12 [KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

(John 19:36 [KJV])
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

(Psalms 34:20 [KJV])
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

(1 Corinthians 15:4 [KJV])
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

THE BURIAL

(Matthew 27:57-60 [KJV])
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

(Mark 15:43-46 [KJV])
Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

(Luke 23:50-56 [KJV])
And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

(John 19:38 [KJV])
And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

JUST TO MAKE SURE: PILATE, ROME, THE SYNAGOGUE RULERS

(Matthew 27:61-66 [KJV])
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

THE RESURRECTION

(Matthew 28:6-10 [KJV])
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

(Mark 16:6 [KJV])
And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

(Luke 24:6 [KJV])
He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
And they remembered his words, And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

(John 20:1 [KJV])
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.

(1 Corinthians 15:5 [KJV])
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

THE RESURRECTION: THE SIGHTINGS, THE PROOF OF THE RESURRECTION

(Luke 24:34 [KJV])
Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

(Mark 16:7 [KJV])
But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

(Mark 16:14 [KJV])
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

(Luke 24:33-36 [KJV])
And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

(Mark 16:9 [KJV])
Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

(John 20:19-25 [KJV])
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

(Acts 1:3 [KJV])
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

(1 Corinthians 15:6-7 [KJV])
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. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

(1 Corinthians 15:8 [KJV])
And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

(2 Timothy 2:16-18 [KJV])
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

Matthew Henry Commentary on this

(1 Corinthians 15:9 [KJV])
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

(1 Corinthians 15:10 [KJV])
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

(James 2:10 [KJV])
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

(Philippians 4:13 [KJV])
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

(1 Corinthians 15:11 [KJV])
Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

(Romans 5:20 [KJV])
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

(1 Corinthians 15:12 [KJV])
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

"That Jesus is merely a created being, a lesser god, is the original Arian heresy! Arius (died 336) was an early "Church Father" who put forth this heresy. Emperor Constantine I and Eusebius promoted the teaching."

(1 Corinthians 15:13,14 [KJV])
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

(1 Corinthians 15:15 [KJV])
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

(1 Corinthians 15:16, 17 [KJV])
For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

(Hebrews 10:31 [KJV])
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

"Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus' earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the Original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of God. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what Evolution means, then Christianity is nothing."

Elsewhere he says: "If evolution happened, then death was widespread before man evolved. But if death preceded man and was not a result of Adam's sin, then sin is a fiction. If sin is a fiction, then we have no need for a Savior".

-Richard Bozarth, "Religiosity and Powerlessness", in The Humanist 37, (May-June 1977), p.46.

(1 Corinthians 15:18 [KJV])
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

(1 Corinthians 15:19 [KJV])
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

THE GOSPEL, EASY TO UNDERSTAND, FROM GOD

(Romans 3:23)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

(Romans 6:23)
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

(Romans 5:8)
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(2 Corinthians 5:21)
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

(Romans 10:9-10)
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

(John 8:24)
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

(Romans 8:1)
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

(1 John 5:13)
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

(1 Corinthians 15:20 [KJV])
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

FIRSTFRUITS

(Exodus 23:16 [KJV])
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

(Exodus 23:19 [KJV])
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

(Exodus 34:22 [KJV])
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

(Exodus 34:26 [KJV])
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

(Leviticus 2:12 [KJV])
As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.

(Leviticus 2:14 [KJV])
And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.

(Leviticus 23:10 [KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

(Leviticus 23:17 [KJV])
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.

(Leviticus 23:20 [KJV])
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

(Numbers 18:12 [KJV])
All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.

(Numbers 28:26 [KJV])
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:

(Deuteronomy 26:10 [KJV])
And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

(2 Kings 4:42 [KJV])
And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

(2 Chronicles 31:5 [KJV])
And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

(Nehemiah 10:35 [KJV])
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

(Nehemiah 10:37 [KJV])
And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

(Nehemiah 12:44 [KJV])
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

(Nehemiah 13:31 [KJV])
And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

(Proverbs 3:9 [KJV])
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

(Jeremiah 2:3 [KJV])
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

(Ezekiel 20:40 [KJV])
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

(Ezekiel 44:30 [KJV])
And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

(Ezekiel 48:14 [KJV])
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.

(Romans 8:23 [KJV])
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

(Romans 16:5 [KJV])
Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

(1 Corinthians 15:20 [KJV])
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

(1 Corinthians 15:23 [KJV])
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

(1 Corinthians 16:15 [KJV])
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

(James 1:18 [KJV])
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

(Revelation 14:4 [KJV])
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

(1 Corinthians 15:21 [KJV])
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

(Romans 5:12-14 [KJV])
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

(1 Corinthians 15:22 [KJV])
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

(1 Corinthians 15:23 [KJV])
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

(1 Corinthians 15:24 [KJV])
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

(1 Corinthians 15:25 [KJV])
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

(Isaiah 65:20 [KJV])
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

(1 Corinthians 15:26 [KJV])
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

(1 Corinthians 15:27 [KJV])
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.

(1 Corinthians 15:28 [KJV])
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

(1 Corinthians 15:29 [KJV])
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

(1 Corinthians 15:30 [KJV])
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

(1 Corinthians 15:31 [KJV])
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

(Luke 22:42 [KJV])
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

PROTEST', v.i. [L. protestor; pro and testor, to affirm it.]
  1. To affirm with solemnity; to make a solemn declaration of a fact or opinion; as, I protest to you, I have no knowledge of the transaction.
  2. To make a solemn declaration expressive of opposition; with against; as, he protests against your votes.
    The conscience has power to protest against the exorbitancies of the passions.
  3. To make a formal declaration in writing against a public law or measure. It is the privilege of any lord in parliament to protest against a law or resolution.
PROTEST', v.t. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation.
Fiercely they oppos'd
My journey strange, with clamorous uproar
Protesting fate supreme.
  1. To prove; to show; to give evidence of. [Not in use.]
  2. In commerce, to protest a bill of exchange, is for a notary public, at the request of the payee, to make a formal declaration under hand and seal, against the drawer of the bill, on account of non-acceptance or non-payment, for exchange, cost,commissions, damages and interest; of which act the indorser must be notified within such time as the law or custom prescribes. In like manner, notes of hand given to a banking corporation are protested for non-payment.
(1 Corinthians 15:32 [KJV])
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

(1 Corinthians 15:33 [KJV])
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

(Deuteronomy 11:16 [KJV])
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

(Luke 21:8 [KJV])
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

(1 Corinthians 6:9 [KJV])
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

(Galatians 6:7 [KJV])
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

COMMUNICATION, n.
  1. The act of imparting, conferring, or delivering, from one to another; as the communication of knowledge, opinions or facts.
  2. Intercourse by words, letters or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means.
    Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you. 2 Sam 3. Let your communication be, yea, yea; nay, nay. Mat 5.
    In 1 Cor 15:33, Evil communications corrupt good manners, the word may signify conversation, colloquial discourses, or customary association and familiarity.
  3. Intercourse; interchange of knowledge; correspondence; good understanding between men.
    Secrets may be carried so far as to stop the communication necessary among all who have the management of affairs.
  4. Connecting passage; means of passing from place to place; as a strait or channel between seas or lakes, a road between cities or countries, a gallery between apartments in a house, an avenue between streets, etc.
    Keep open a communication with the besieged place.
  5. That which is communicated or imparted.
    The house received a communication from the Governor, respecting the hospital.
  6. In rhetoric, a trope by which a speaker or writer takes his hearer or speaker as a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.
(1 Corinthians 15:34 [KJV])
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

(Hebrews 10:26-30 [KJV])
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

(1 Corinthians 15:35 [KJV])
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

(1 Corinthians 15:36 [KJV])
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

(1 Corinthians 15:37 [KJV])
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:

(1 Corinthians 15:38 [KJV])
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

(1 Corinthians 15:39 [KJV])
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

(1 Corinthians 15:40 [KJV])
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

(1 Corinthians 15:41 [KJV])
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

OUR SUN: UNIQUE FOR US, BY GOD

(Genesis 1:16 [KJV])
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

(Genesis 15:12 [KJV])
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

(Genesis 15:17 [KJV])
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

(Genesis 19:23 [KJV])
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

(Genesis 28:11 [KJV])
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

(Genesis 32:31 [KJV])
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

(Genesis 37:9 [KJV])
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

(Exodus 16:21 [KJV])
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

(Exodus 17:12 [KJV])
But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

(Exodus 22:3 [KJV])
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

(Exodus 22:26 [KJV])
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

(Leviticus 22:7 [KJV])
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

(Numbers 2:3 [KJV])
And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

(Numbers 21:11 [KJV])
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

(Numbers 25:4 [KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

(Numbers 34:15 [KJV])
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

(Deuteronomy 4:19 [KJV])
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

(Deuteronomy 4:41 [KJV])
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

(Deuteronomy 4:47 [KJV])
And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

(Deuteronomy 11:30 [KJV])
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

(Deuteronomy 16:6 [KJV])
But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 17:3 [KJV])
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

(Deuteronomy 23:11 [KJV])
But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

(Deuteronomy 24:13 [KJV])
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

(Deuteronomy 24:15 [KJV])
At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

(Deuteronomy 33:14 [KJV])
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

(Joshua 1:4 [KJV])
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

(Joshua 1:15 [KJV])
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

(Joshua 8:29 [KJV])
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

(Joshua 10:13 [KJV])
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

(Joshua 10:27 [KJV])
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.

(Joshua 12:1 [KJV])
Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

(Joshua 13:5 [KJV])
And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

(Joshua 19:12 [KJV])
And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,

(Joshua 19:27 [KJV])
And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,

(Joshua 19:34 [KJV])
And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

(Judges 5:31 [KJV])
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

(Judges 8:13 [KJV])
And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,

(Judges 9:33 [KJV])
And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.

(Judges 14:18 [KJV])
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

(Judges 19:14 [KJV])
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

(Judges 20:43 [KJV])
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

(1 Samuel 11:9 [KJV])
And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

(2 Samuel 2:24 [KJV])
Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

(2 Samuel 3:35 [KJV])
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

(2 Samuel 12:12 [KJV])
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

(2 Samuel 23:4 [KJV])
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

(1 Kings 22:36 [KJV])
And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

(2 Kings 3:22 [KJV])
And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:

(2 Kings 23:5 [KJV])
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

(2 Kings 23:11 [KJV])
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

(2 Chronicles 18:34 [KJV])
And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

(Nehemiah 7:3 [KJV])
And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

(Job 8:16 [KJV])
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

(Job 9:7 [KJV])
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

(Job 30:28 [KJV])
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

(Job 31:26 [KJV])
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

(Psalms 19:4 [KJV])
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

(Psalms 50:1 [KJV])
A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

(Psalms 58:8 [KJV])
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

(Psalms 72:5 [KJV])
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

(Psalms 72:17 [KJV])
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

(Psalms 74:16 [KJV])
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

(Psalms 89:36 [KJV])
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

(Psalms 104:19 [KJV])
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

(Psalms 104:22 [KJV])
The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

(Psalms 113:3 [KJV])
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.

(Psalms 121:6 [KJV])
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

(Psalms 136:8 [KJV])
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

(Ecclesiastes 1:3 [KJV])
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

(Ecclesiastes 1:5 [KJV])
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

(Ecclesiastes 1:9 [KJV])
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 1:14 [KJV])
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

(Ecclesiastes 2:11 [KJV])
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 2:17 [KJV])
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

(Ecclesiastes 2:18 [KJV])
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

(Ecclesiastes 2:19 [KJV])
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

(Ecclesiastes 2:20 [KJV])
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 2:22 [KJV])
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

(Ecclesiastes 3:16 [KJV])
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

(Ecclesiastes 4:1 [KJV])
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

(Ecclesiastes 4:3 [KJV])
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 4:7 [KJV])
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 4:15 [KJV])
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

(Ecclesiastes 5:13 [KJV])
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

(Ecclesiastes 5:18 [KJV])
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

(Ecclesiastes 6:1 [KJV])
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

(Ecclesiastes 6:5 [KJV])
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

(Ecclesiastes 6:12 [KJV])
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

(Ecclesiastes 7:11 [KJV])
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 8:9 [KJV])
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

(Ecclesiastes 8:15 [KJV])
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 8:17 [KJV])
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

(Ecclesiastes 9:3 [KJV])
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

(Ecclesiastes 9:6 [KJV])
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 9:9 [KJV])
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

(Ecclesiastes 9:11 [KJV])
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

(Ecclesiastes 9:13 [KJV])
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

(Ecclesiastes 10:5 [KJV])
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

(Ecclesiastes 11:7 [KJV])
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

(Ecclesiastes 12:2 [KJV])
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

(Song of Solomon 1:6 [KJV])
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

(Song of Solomon 6:10 [KJV])
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

(Isaiah 13:10 [KJV])
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

(Isaiah 24:23 [KJV])
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

(Isaiah 30:26 [KJV])
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

(Isaiah 38:8 [KJV])
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

(Isaiah 41:25 [KJV])
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

(Isaiah 45:6 [KJV])
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

(Isaiah 59:19 [KJV])
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

(Isaiah 60:19 [KJV])
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

(Jeremiah 8:2 [KJV])
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

(Jeremiah 31:35 [KJV])
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

(Ezekiel 8:16 [KJV])
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

(Ezekiel 32:7 [KJV])
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

(Daniel 6:14 [KJV])
Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

(Joel 2:10 [KJV])
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

(Joel 2:31 [KJV])
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

(Joel 3:15 [KJV])
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

(Amos 8:9 [KJV])
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

(Jonah 4:8 [KJV])
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

(Micah 3:6 [KJV])
Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

(Nahum 3:17 [KJV])
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

(Habakkuk 3:11 [KJV])
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

(Malachi 1:11 [KJV])
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

(Malachi 4:2 [KJV])
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

(Matthew 13:6 [KJV])
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

(Matthew 13:43 [KJV])
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

(Matthew 17:2 [KJV])
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

(Matthew 24:29 [KJV])
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

(Mark 1:32 [KJV])
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.

(Mark 4:6 [KJV])
But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

(Mark 13:24,25 [KJV])
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

(Mark 16:2 [KJV])
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

(Luke 4:40 [KJV])
Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

(Luke 21:25 [KJV])
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

(Luke 23:45 [KJV])
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

(Acts 2:20 [KJV])
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

(Acts 13:11 [KJV])
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

(Acts 26:13 [KJV])
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

(Ephesians 4:26 [KJV])
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

(James 1:11 [KJV])
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

(Revelation 1:16 [KJV])
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

(Revelation 6:12 [KJV])
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

(Revelation 7:16 [KJV])
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

(Revelation 8:12 [KJV])
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

(Revelation 9:2 [KJV])
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

(Revelation 10:1 [KJV])
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

(Revelation 12:1 [KJV])
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

(Revelation 16:8 [KJV])
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

(Revelation 19:17 [KJV])
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;

(Revelation 21:23 [KJV])
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

(Revelation 22:5 [KJV])
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

"All stars look alike to the naked eye; even seen through a telescope, they seem to be just points of light. However, analysis of their light spectra reveals that each of them is uniquely different from all others. Each has its own distinctive ratio of apparent brightness to temperature, so each is different “in glory” from all others."

(1 Corinthians 15:42 [KJV])
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

(1 Corinthians 15:43 [KJV])
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

(1 Corinthians 15:44 [KJV])
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

THE SPIRITUAL DEAD

(Revelation 20:11-15 [KJV])
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

(1 Corinthians 15:45 [KJV])
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

QUICKEN, v.t. quik'n.
  1. Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. Rom 4. Hence flocks and herds, and men and beasts and fowls, with breath are quicken'd and attract their souls.
  2. To make alive in a spiritual sense; to communicate a principle of grace to. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Eph 2.
  3. To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.
  4. To sharpen; to give keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires.
  5. To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Psa 119.

QUICKEN, v.i. quik'n.
  1. To become alive. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
  2. To move with rapidity or activity. And keener lightning quickens in her eye.

(1 Corinthians 15:46 [KJV])
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

(Genesis 2:7 [KJV])
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

(1 Corinthians 15:47 [KJV])
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

(1 Corinthians 15:48 [KJV])
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

(Genesis 3:19 [KJV])
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

(1 Corinthians 15:49 [KJV])
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

(1 Corinthians 15:50 [KJV])
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

(Nahum 1:6 [KJV])
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

(1 Corinthians 15:51,52 [KJV])
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

(1 Corinthians 15:53 [KJV])
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

(1 Corinthians 15:54, 55 [KJV])
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

(Isaiah 25:8 [KJV])
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

(Hosea 13:14 [KJV])
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

(Hebrews 2:14 [KJV])
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

(2 Timothy 1:10 [KJV])
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: (1 Corinthians 15:56 [KJV])
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

(1 Corinthians 15:57 [KJV])
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(John 14:4-6 [KJV])
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

(1 Corinthians 15:58 [KJV])
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

(1 Corinthians 15:3,4 [KJV])
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

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