For I delivered unto you first of all - Εν προτοις· As the chief things, or matters of the greatest importance; fundamental truths.

That which I-- received - By revelations from God himself, and not from man.

That Christ died for our sins - The death of Jesus Christ, as a vicarious sacrifice for sin, is εν πρωτοις; among the things that are of chief importance, and is essential to the Gospel scheme of salvation.

According to the Scriptures - It is not said any where in the Scriptures, in express terms, that Christ should rise on the third day; but it is fully implied in his types, as in the case of Jonah, who came out of the belly of the fish on the third day; but particularly in the case of Isaac, who was a very expressive type of Christ; for, as his being brought to the Mount Moriah, bound and laid on the wood, in order to be sacrificed, pointed out the death of Christ; so his being brought alive on the third day from the mount was a figure of Christ's resurrection. Bishop Pearce and others refer to Matthew 12:40; Matthew 16:21; and Luke 9:22; "which two Gospels, having been written at the time when Paul wrote this epistle, were properly called by the name of the Sacred Scriptures." It might be so; but I do not know of one proof in the New Testament where its writings, or any part of them, are called the Scriptures.

that.

Isaiah 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence...

Matthew 27:57-60 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple...

Mark 15:43-46 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honorable counselor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly to Pilate...

Luke 23:50-53 And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor; and he was a good man, and a just...

John 19:38-42 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews...

Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.

Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father...

Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God...

he rose.

1 Corinthians 15:16-21 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised...

Matthew 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to whip, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

Matthew 27:63,64 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again...

Matthew 28:1-6 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week...

Mark 9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him...

Mark 10:33,34 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes...

Mark 16:2-7 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came to the sepulcher at the rising of the sun...

Luke 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain...

Luke 18:32,33 For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on...

Luke 24:5-7 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said to them, Why seek you the living among the dead...

John 2:19-21 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up...

John 20:1-9 The first day of the week comes Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, to the sepulcher...

Acts 1:3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days...

Acts 2:23,24,32 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...

Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead:

Acts 17:31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained...

Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep...

according.

Psalm 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

Psalm 16:10,11 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption...

Isaiah 53:10-12 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed...

Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly...

Luke 24:26,46 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory...

Acts 2:25-33 For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved...

Acts 13:30-37 But God raised him from the dead...

Acts 26:22,23 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great...

1 Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify...

Fifth Sunday after Easter
Text: First Corinthians 15, 51-58. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass …
Martin Luther—Epistle Sermons, Vol. II

Paul's Estimate of Himself
'By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain.'--1 COR. xv. 10. The Apostle was, all his life, under the hateful necessity of vindicating his character and Apostleship. Thus here, though his main purpose in the context is simply to declare the Gospel which he preached, he is obliged to turn aside in order to assert, and to back up his assertion, that there was no sort of difference between him and the other recognised teachers of Christian truth. He …
Alexander Maclaren—Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)

The Unity of Apostolic Teaching
Whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.'--1 COR. xv. 11. Party spirit and faction were the curses of Greek civic life, and they had crept into at least one of the Greek churches--that in the luxurious and powerful city of Corinth. We know that there was a very considerable body of antagonists to Paul, who ranked themselves under the banner of Apollos or of Cephas i.e. Peter. Therefore, Paul, keenly conscious that he was speaking to some unfriendly critics, hastens in the …
Alexander Maclaren—Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)