1 Cor 15:35-44 – “There is also a Spiritual Body”

  . From here, but with an addition. -  I’ve added A/A’ to this particular chiasmus.  Both A and A’ begin by referring to the resurrection of the dead and the kind of body a resurrected body will have.  Both A and A’ use an agricultural metaphor – ‘sowing’.  This metaphor is used a number of [...]

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1 Corinthians 13:8-13 – On Love

  A    8  Love never fails; B    1    but if there are gifts of prophecy,    2    they will be done away;       1′   if there are tongues,    2′     they will cease;       1”   if there is knowledge,    2”    it will be done away. C    a    9  For we know in part,     b    and we prophesy in part;    b’   10  but [...]

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