1 Corinthians 15

¹And I do you to understand, brethren, the Gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in the which also you stand,

²by the which also you are saved, after what manner I preached unto you if you keep it, unless you have believed in vain.

³For I delivered unto you first of all which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures:

⁴and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures:

⁵and that he was seen of Cephas; and after that of the eleven.

⁶Then was he seen of more than five hundred brethren together: of which many remain until this present, and some are a-sleep.

⁷Moreover he was seen of James, then of all the Apostles.

⁸And last of all, as it were of an abortive he was seen also of me.

⁹For I am the least of the Apostles, who am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

¹⁰But by the grace of God I am that which I am; & his grace in me hath not been void, but I have laboured more aboundantly than all they: yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

¹¹For whether I, or they, so we preach, and so you have believed.

¹²But if Christ be preached that he is risen again from the dead, how do certain among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³And if there be no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ risen again.

¹⁴And if Christ be not risen again, then vain is our preaching, vain also is your faith.

¹⁵And we are found also false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.

¹⁶For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.

¹⁷And if Christ be not risen again, vain is your faith, for yet you are in your sins.

¹⁸Then they also that are a-sleep in Christ, are perished.

¹⁹If in this life only we be hoping in Christ, we are more miserable than all men.

²⁰But now Christ is risen again from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep:

²¹for by a man death; and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

²²And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

²³But every one in his own order: the first fruits Christ, then they that are of Christ, that believed in his coming.

²⁴Then the end, when he shall have delivered the Kingdom to God and the Father, when he shall have abolished all principality & authority & power.

²⁵And he must reign, Until he put all his enemies under his feet.

²⁶And the enemy death shall be destroyed last. For he hath subdued all things under his feet. And whereas he saith,

²⁷All things are subdued to him; undoubtedly, except him that subdued all things unto him.

²⁸And when all things shall be subdued to him; then the Son also himself shall be subject to him that subdued all things unto him, that God may be all in all.

²⁹Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all?

³⁰Why also are they baptized for them? Why also are we in danger every hour?

³¹I die daily by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³²If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

³³Be not seduced, Evil communications corrupt good manners.

³⁴Awake ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak to your shame.

³⁵But some man saith: How do the dead rise again? and with what manner of body shall they come?

³⁶Fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, unless it die first.

³⁷And that which thou sowest, not the body that shall be, doest thou sow; but bare grain, to wit, of wheat, or of some of the rest.

³⁸And God giveth it a body as he will: & to every seed his proper body.

³⁹Not all flesh, is the same flesh: but one of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.

⁴⁰And bodies celestial, & bodies terrestrial: but, one glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

⁴¹One glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory:

⁴²so also the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.

⁴³It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory. It is sown in infirmity, it shall rise in power.

⁴⁴It is sown a natural body; it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual,

⁴⁵as it is written: The first man Adam was made into a living soul: the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

⁴⁶Yet that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterward that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷The first man of earth, earthly: the second man from Heaven, heavenly.

⁴⁸Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as the heavenly, such also are the heavenly.

⁴⁹Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰This I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the Kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.

⁵¹Behold I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

⁵²In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet (for the trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed.

⁵³For this corruptible must do on incorruption; & this mortal do on immortality.

⁵⁴And when this mortal hath done on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

⁵⁵Death where is thy victory? Death where is thy sting?

⁵⁶And the sting of death, is sin: and the power of sin is the Law.

⁵⁷But thanks be to God that hath given us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brethren, be stable and unmoveable; abounding in the work of our Lord always, knowing that your labour is not vain in our Lord: