And I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,
by which also ye are being saved, if ye hold fast with what discourse I announced [it] to you, unless ye believed lightly.
For I delivered to you, in the first place, that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
and that he was buried; and that he was raised the third day according to the scriptures;
and that he appeared to Cephas, after that to the twelve.
After that he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain till now, but some also have fallen asleep.
After that he appeared to James, after that to all the apostles;
and last of all, as to the abortion, he appeared to me also.
For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God;
but by God’s grace I am what I am, and his grace that [was] towards me became not empty, but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I but the grace of God that [was] with me.
Whether then I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye believed.
But if Christ is preached that he is raised from [the] dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of [the] dead?
But if there is no resurrection of [the] dead, neither is Christ raised;
and if Christ is not raised, then also empty [is] our preaching, and empty also your faith;
and we are also found false witnesses of God, because we witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he raised not, if indeed no dead are raised.
For if no dead are raised, neither is Christ raised;
and if Christ is not raised, vain [is] your faith; ye are yet in your sins;
then also those that fell asleep in Christ perished.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are most to be pitied of all men.
But now is Christ raised from [the] dead, firstfruit of those fallen asleep.
For since by man [is] death, by man also resurrection of dead.
For as in the Adam all die, so also in the Christ shall all be made alive;
but each in his own rank: [the] firstfruit Christ; then those that are the Christ’s at his coming;
then the end, when he giveth up the kingdom to him [who is] God and Father, when he shall have done away all rule, and all authority, and power.
For he must reign until he put all the enemies under his feet.
Death, last enemy, is to be done away.
For he subjected all things under his feet. But when he saith that all things have been subjected, [it is] manifest that [it is] except him who subjected all things to him.
But when all things shall have been subjected to him, then also the Son himself will be subjected to him that subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
Else what shall they do that are being baptized for the dead? If no dead rise at all, why also are they baptized for them?
Why are we also in danger every hour?
Daily I die, by the boasting of you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If after man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what [is] the profit to me? If no dead rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Wake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak unto your shame.
But someone will say, How are the dead to rise? and with what body do they come?
Fool, what thou sowest is not quickened unless it die;
and what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the rest;
and God giveth to it a body as he pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.
Every flesh [is] not the same flesh, but one [is] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.
[There are] both bodies heavenly and bodies earthly; but different [is] the glory of the heavenly, and different that of the earthly:
one [the] sun’s glory, and another [the] moon’s glory, and another [the] stars’ glory; for star differeth from star in glory.
So also [is] the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual.
So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening Spirit:
yet not first [is] the spiritual, but the natural, afterward the spiritual;
the first man out of the earth made of dust, the second man out of heaven:
as [is] he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and as [is] the heavenly [one], such also the heavenly [ones];
and even as we bore the image of the [one] made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [ones].
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in an instant, in [the] twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for it shall sound, and the dead shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.
But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.
Where, death, [is] thy victory? where, death, thy sting?
Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law;
but thanks to God that giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wherefore, my brethren beloved, be firm, immoveable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your toil is not empty in [the] Lord.