And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power.
And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power.
And God hath both raised up the Lord - He has raised up the human nature of Christ from the grave, as a pledge of our resurrection; and will also raise us up by his own power, that we may dwell with him in glory for ever.
And God hath both raised up ... - This is the "second" argument against indulgences in this sin. It is this. "We are united to Christ. God has raised him from the dead, and made his body glorified. Our bodies will be like his (compare Philippians 3:21); and since our body is to be raised up by the power of God; since it is to be perfectly pure and holy, and since this is to be done by his agency, it is wrong that it should be devoted to purposes of pollution and lust." It is unworthy:
(1) Of our connection with that pure Saviour who has been raised from the dead - the image of our resurrection from the death and defilements of sin (compare the notes at Romans 6:1-12); and,
(2) Unworthy of the hope that our bodies shall be raised up to perfect and immortal purity in the heavens. No argument could be stronger. A deep sense of our union with a pure and risen Saviour, and a lively hope of immortal purity, would do more than all other things to restrain from licentious indulgences.