1 Corinthians 15:34 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.

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New International Version
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.

English Standard Version
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

New American Standard Bible
Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

King James Bible
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

International Standard Version
Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you—I say this to your shame—don't fully know God.

American Standard Version
Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.

Darby Bible Translation
Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

Young's Literal Translation
awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, said the LORD.

Matthew 22:29
Jesus answered and said to them, You do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Acts 26:8
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

1 Corinthians 4:14
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:20-34 All that are by faith united to Christ, are by his resurrection assured of their own. As through the sin of the first Adam, all men became mortal, because all had from him the same sinful nature, so, through the resurrection of Christ, shall all who are made to partake of the Spirit, and the spiritual nature, revive, and live for ever. There will be an order in the resurrection. Christ himself has been the first-fruits; at his coming, his redeemed people will be raised before others; at the last the wicked will rise also. Then will be the end of this present state of things. Would we triumph in that solemn and important season, we must now submit to his rule, accept his salvation, and live to his glory. Then shall we rejoice in the completion of his undertaking, that God may receive the whole glory of our salvation, that we may for ever serve him, and enjoy his favour. What shall those do, who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Perhaps baptism is used here in a figure, for afflictions, sufferings, and martyrdom, as Mt 20:22,23. What is, or will become of those who have suffered many and great injuries, and have even lost their lives, for this doctrine of the resurrection, if the dead rise not at all? Whatever the meaning may be, doubtless the apostle's argument was understood by the Corinthians. And it is as plain to us that Christianity would be a foolish profession, if it proposed advantage to themselves by their faithfulness to God; and to have our fruit to holiness, that our end may be everlasting life. But we must not live like beasts, as we do not die like them. It must be ignorance of God that leads any to disbelieve the resurrection and future life. Those who own a God and a providence, and observe how unequal things are in the present life, how frequently the best men fare worst, cannot doubt as to an after-state, where every thing will be set to rights. Let us not be joined with ungodly men; but warn all around us, especially children and young persons, to shun them as a pestilence. Let us awake to righteousness, and not sin.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

34. Awake—literally, "out of the sleep" of carnal intoxication into which ye are thrown by the influence of these skeptics (1Co 15:32; Joe 1:5).

to righteousness—in contrast with "sin" in this verse, and corrupt manners (1Co 15:33).

sin not—Do not give yourselves up to sinful pleasures. The Greek expresses a continued state of abstinence from sin. Thus, Paul implies that they who live in sinful pleasures readily persuade themselves of what they wish, namely, that there is to be no resurrection.

some—the same as in 1Co 15:12.

have not the knowledge of God—and so know not His power in the resurrection (Mt 22:29). Stronger than "are ignorant of God." An habitual ignorance: wilful, in that they prefer to keep their sins, rather than part with them, in order to know God (compare Joh 7:17; 1Pe 2:15).

to your shame—that you Corinthian Christians, who boast of your knowledge, should have among you, and maintain intercourse with, those so practically ignorant of God, as to deny the resurrection.