1 CORINTHIANS 15:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.”
Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame — Paul calls for repentance (nepho: to be sober, wake up). Denying resurrection is not merely intellectual error but shameful ignorance of God's character and power.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:34
“Awake up righteously and sin not.” As if he were speaking to drunkards and madmen. For suddenly to cast every thing out of their hands, was the part of drunkards and madmen, in not seeing any longer what they saw nor believing what they had before confessed. But what is, “righteously?” with a view to what is profitable and useful. For it is possible to awake up unrighteously, when a man is thoroughly roused up to the injury of his own soul. And well did he add, “sin not,”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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