[1 Corinthians 15]

 

             ^15:1 Now I make known to you^° brethren, the good-news which I proclaimed to you^°, which you^° also received, in which you^° are also standing, ^15:2 through which you^° are also saved, if you^° are holding-onto the good-news, the word in what I proclaimed to you^°, unless you^° vainly believed. ^15:3 For^* I gave to you^° first, what I also received: that Christ died on behalf of our sins according-to the Scriptures; {Isa 53:8-9} ^15:4 and that he was buried, and that he has been raised up on the third day according-to the Scriptures. {Psa 16:10}

             {1Co 15:5-7, Mat 28:16-17, Mar 16:12-13, Luk 24:13-35, 24:44-49, Joh 20:26-31, Acts 1:3-8.}

             ^15:5 And that he was seen by Cephas; thereafter by the twelve; ^15:6 thereafter he was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, out-of whom the most {i.e., majority} remain until now, but some did also fall-asleep {i.e., died}; ^15:7 thereafter he was seen by James; thereafter by all the apostles; ^15:8 and last of all, like the premature-baby, he was seen also to me. ^15:9 For^* I am the least of the apostles, of whom I am not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation^* of believers of God. ^15:10 But I am what I am by the grace of God {Or: favor from God} and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than all of them; but not I, but the grace of God, the one together-with me. ^15:11 Therefore, whether it is I, or it is those men, so we preach and so you^° believed.

 

             ^15:12 Now if Christ is preached, He has been raised up from the dead, how are some among you^° saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? ^15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised up; ^15:14 and if Christ has not been raised up, consequently^*, our preaching is empty and your^° faith is also empty. ^15:15 Now, we are also found to be false^* witnesses of God, because we testified against God in saying that he raised the Christ up, whom consequently^*, he did not raise up, if indeed^* the dead are not raised up. ^15:16 For^* if the dead are not raised up, not even Christ has been raised up; ^15:17 and if Christ has not been raised up, your^° faith is futile: you^° are still in your^° sins. ^15:18 Consequently^*, also the ones who fell-asleep in Christ perished. ^15:19 If we are the ones who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are the most pitiful of all men.

             ^15:20 But now Christ has been raised up from the dead, he became the first-fruit of the ones who have fallen-asleep. ^15:21 For^* since the death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. ^15:22 For^* just-like all die in Adam, so all will also be made^* alive in the Christ. ^15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit; thereafter the ones who are the Christ’s in his presence. ^15:24 Thereafter is the end, whenever he gives up the kingdom to the God and Father, whenever he does-away-with all rule and all authority and power. ^15:25 For^* it is essential for him to reign, till which time he would have placed all the enemies under his feet. {Psa 110:1} ^15:26 The last enemy, the Death, is done-away-with. ^15:27 For^* he subjected all things under his feet. {Psa 8:6} But whenever he says, All things have been subjected, it is evident, that is outside {i.e., except for} the one who subjected all things to him. ^15:28 But whenever all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who has subjected all things to him in-order-that God may be all in all.

 

             ^15:29 Otherwise what will they do^* who are immersed^* on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not literally raised up, why are they even immersed^* on behalf of the dead?               ^15:30 Why are we also in peril every hour? ^15:31 By my boasting of you^°, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day. ^15:32 If I engaged-wild-beasts in Ephesus according-to the manner of man {this may have meant some kind of gladiatorial contest}, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised up, ‘We should eat and drink, for^* the next-day we die.’ {Isa 22:13} ^15:33 Do^° not be misled: evil associations corrupt virtuous morals. {Or: customs or habits (inward & outward).} ^15:34 Be^° righteously sober and do^° not sin, for^* some have ignorance of God. I say this to shame you^°.

 

             ^15:35 But someone will say, How are the dead raised up and with what manner of body do they come? ^15:36 You fool, what you sow is not made^* alive if it does not die; ^15:37 and what you sow, you do not sow the body: the one will become, but a naked kernel, if it might be of wheat or any one of the rest of the grains; ^15:38 but God gives it a body just-as he willed and to each of the seeds its own body.

             ^15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but indeed there is another flesh of men and another flesh of animals and another of birds and another of fish ^15:40 and heavenly bodies and earthly bodies (but the glory of the heavenly is indeed different, and the glory of the earthly is different). ^15:41 There is another glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; for^* one star carries more-value in glory than that of another star.

             ^15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. If it is sown in corruption, it is raised up in incorruption. ^15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power. ^15:44 It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. There is a physical body, and there is also a spiritual body. ^15:45 So also it has been written, ‘The first man Adam became a living soul,’ {Gen 2:7} but the last Adam became a life-making spirit ^*for us. ^15:46 But the spiritual was not first, but the physical, and thereafter the spiritual. ^15:47 The first man is out-of the earth, the terrestrial; the second man, the Lord, is out-of heaven. ^15:48 Such-as is the terrestrial, such also are the terrestrial and such-as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly. ^15:49 And just-as we wore the image of the terrestrial, we should also wear the image of the heavenly. ^15:50 Now brethren, I say this, Flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, neither is the corruption inheriting the incorruption.

                          {1Co 15:51-15:58 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1:11 & 1Th 4:13-17 & 2Th 1:7-9 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}

             ^15:51 Behold, I tell you^° a mystery, Not all indeed will fall-asleep, but we will all be changed, ^15:52 in the briefest-moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for^* the last trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised up incorruptible and we will be changed. ^15:53 For^* it is essential for this corruptible body to be clothed with incorruption and this mortal body to be clothed with immortality. ^15:54 But whenever this corruptible body should be clothed with incorruption and whenever this mortal should be clothed with immortality, then the word, the one which has been written, will become so,

The Death was swallowed up in victory. {Isa 25:8} ^15:55 O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? ^15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; ^15:57 but gratitude is to God, the one giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ^15:58 So-then my beloved brethren, become^° grounded and unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your^° labor is not empty in the Lord.