1 Corinthians 15

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached to you which ye received, and wherein ye stand. 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye retain as I preached to you: unless indeed ye have believed in vain. 3 For in the first I delivered to you, that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the scriptures. 5 And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve: 6 after that He appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain yet but some are fallen asleep. 7 Afterwards He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 And last of all He appeared to me also, as one born out of due time: for I am the lest of the apostles, 9 not worthy 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 favor to me was not vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 Whether therefore I or they thus we preach, and thus ye believed. 12 Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. 14 And if Christ be not risen, then our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses concerning God, for we have testified of God, that He raised up Christ; whom He did not raise up, if indeed the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised: 17 and if Christ be not risen, your faith vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also that sleep in Christ, are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, is become the first-fruits of them that slept: 21 for as by man death, by man also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in proper order: the first-fruits, Christ; afterwards they that are Christ’s, at his coming. 24 Then the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule, and all authority, and power. 25 For he must reign till hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy is destroyed death: 27 for hath put all under his feet. But when He saith that all are put under plain that except Him who put all under Him. 28 And when all shall be subjected to Him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to Him, that put all under Him, that God may be all in all. 29 Besides, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why then are they baptized for the dead? 30 And why are we in danger every hour? 31 I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I am dying daily. 32 If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. — 33 Be not deceived, bad conversations corrupt good morals. 34 Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak 35 But some will say, How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come? 36 Silly that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die 37 And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be but a bare grain, it may be, of wheat, or any other 38 and God giveth it a body as He pleaseth, and to every one of the seeds it’s own body. 39 All flesh not the same flesh: but one flesh of men, and another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 40 also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but there one glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial. 41 one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: and star differeth from star in glory. 42 So also the resurrection of the dead. is sown in corruption, it is raised incorruptible: it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory: 43 it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body: there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul.” the last Adam an enlivening spirit. 46 However, the spiritual not first, but the animal; afterwards the spiritual. 47 The first man out of the earth, earthy: the second man the Lord from heaven. 48 as the earthy such they also that are earthy: and such, as the heavenly, they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50 But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor doth what is corruptible inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed in a moment, 52 in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet (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 be clothed with immortality. 54 And when this corruptible shall be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word written, “Death is swallowed up in victory." 55 O death, where thy sting? O grave, where thy victory? 56 the sting of death sin; and the strength of sin the law: 57 but thanks to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.