1 Corinthians 15
1 Now I make known to you⁺, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you⁺, which also you⁺ received, in which you⁺ also stand,
2 by which you⁺ are also being saved in what word I proclaimed to you⁺, if you⁺ hold fast—unless you⁺ believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you⁺ as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.
6 Afterward, He appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, the greater part of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.
7 Afterward, He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8 And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared also to me.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But [by] the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not empty. But I toiled more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that [was] with me.
11 Whether, then, I or they, thus we preach, and thus you⁺ believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised out from the dead, how do some among you⁺ say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then also our preaching [is] void, and your⁺ faith [is] void.
15 Then also we are found false witnesses of God, because we have witnessed concerning God that He raised Christ, whom He has not raised if then the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your⁺ faith is futile; you⁺ are still in your⁺ sins.
18 Then also those having fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If only in this life we are having hope in Christ, we are more to be pitied than all men.
20 But now Christ has been raised out from the dead, the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep.
21 For since death [is] through a man, also through a man [is] the resurrection of the dead.
22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive—
23 but each in [his] own order: Christ the firstfruit, then those of Christ at His coming,
24 then the end, when He shall deliver the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He shall have made null all rule and all authority and power.
25 For it is necessary for Him to reign until He shall have put all the enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy to be made null [is] death.
27 For “He has subjected all things under His feet.” But when it may be said that all things have been subjected, [it is] evident that the One having subjected all things to Him [is] excepted.
28 Now when all things shall be subjected to Him, then also the Son Himself will be subjected to the One having subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.
29 Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they also baptized for them?
30 And why are we in danger every hour?
31 I die every day, as surely as the boasting in you⁺, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 If according to man I fought wild beasts in Ephesus, what [is] the gain to me? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and let us drink, for tomorrow we die.”
33 Do not be led astray: “Bad companionships corrupt good morals.”
34 Sober up righteously and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak to you⁺ for shame.
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?”
36 You Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37 And what you sow [is] not the body that will be, but you sow a bare grain, if it may be of wheat or of some of the rest.
38 But God gives it a body as He willed, and to each of the seeds, its own body.
39 Not all flesh [is] the same, but indeed one flesh [is] of men, and another flesh [is] of beasts, and another flesh [is] of birds, and another [is] of fish.
40 And [there are] heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But indeed, the glory of the heavenly [is] one [kind], and that of the earthly [is] another.
41 [There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility;
43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual.
45 So also it has been written: “The first man Adam became into a living soul;” the last Adam into a life-giving spirit.
46 But the spiritual [was] not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.
47 The first man [was] out of the earth, made of dust; the second man out of heaven.
48 As [was] the one made of dust, such [are] also those made of dust; and as [is] the heavenly one, such [are] also the heavenly.
49 And as we bore the image of the one made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenly one.
50 Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.
51 Behold, I speak to you⁺ a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For it is necessary for this, the corruptible to put on incorruptibility, and this, the mortal to put on immortality.
54 Now when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then the word having been written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, [is] your victory? Where, O death, [is] your sting?”
56 Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin [is] the law.
57 But thanks [be] to God, the One giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your⁺ labor in the Lord is not in vain.