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1 Corinthians 15:34

1 Corinthians 15:34 is verse 34 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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1 Corinthians 15:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

34 Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

36 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Joel 1:5

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

Jonah 1:6

The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

Romans 13:11

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Ephesians 5:14

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Psalms 4:4

Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

Psalms 119:11

I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

John 5:14

Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

John 8:11

“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

1 Corinthians 8:7

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Corinthians 6:5

I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?

Hebrews 5:11

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

Hebrews 5:12

Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!

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