1 Corinthians 15
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The Resurrection of Christ
1#Ro 5:2; 2Co 1:24Now, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and in which you stand. 2#Gal 3:4; Ro 1:16Through it you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.
3#1Pe 2:24; 1Co 11:23; Gal 1:4For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4#Ps 16:10–11; Hos 6:2was buried, rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5#Mk 16:14; Ac 10:41and was seen by Cephas, and then by the twelve. 6#Ac 7:60; 1Co 15:18Then He was seen by over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain to this present time, though some have passed away. 7#Lk 24:50Then He was seen by James and then by all the apostles. 8#1Co 9:1; Ac 9:17Last of all, He was seen by me also, as by one born at the wrong time.
9#Ac 8:3; 2Co 12:11For I am the least of the apostles and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10#Php 2:13; 2Co 3:5But by the grace of God I am what I am. And His grace toward me was not in vain. I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
The Resurrection of the Dead
12#Ac 23:8; 2Ti 2:18Now if Christ is preached that He rose from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13#1Th 4:14If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen. 14If Christ has not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain. 15#Ac 2:24Yes, and we would then be found false witnesses of God, because we have testified that God raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up, if in fact the dead do not rise. 16For if the dead do not rise, then Christ has not been raised. 17#Ro 4:25If Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. 18#Rev 14:13; 1Co 15:6Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19#2Ti 3:12If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20#Ac 26:23; 1Co 15:23But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21#Jn 11:25; Ro 6:23For since death came by man, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23#1Co 15:20; 15:52But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward, those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24#Da 7:27; 7:14; Isa 9:7Then comes the end when He will deliver up the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25#Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44For He will reign until He has put all enemies under His feet. 26#2Ti 1:10; Rev 20:14The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. 27#Ps 8:6; Mt 28:18For He “has put all things under His feet.”#Ps 8:6. But when He says, “all things are put under Him,” it is revealed that He, who has put all things under Him, is the exception. 28#1Co 3:23; Php 3:21When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.
29Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? 30And why do we stand in danger every hour? 31#Ro 8:36; 1Th 2:19I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32#Isa 22:13; Lk 12:19If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me if the dead do not rise?
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”#Isa 22:13.
33#1Co 5:6; 6:9Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” 34#Ro 13:11; 1Co 6:5Awake to righteousness and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
The Resurrection Body
35#Eze 37:3But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? With what body do they come?” 36#Jn 12:24You fool! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37When you sow, you do not sow the body that shall be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38Then God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body. 39All flesh is not the same flesh. There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fish, and another of birds. 40There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies. The glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. One star differs from another star in glory.
42#Da 12:3; Mt 13:43So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 43#Col 3:4It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45#Ge 2:7; Ro 8:2; Jn 5:21So it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul.”#Ge 2:7. The last Adam was made a life-giving spirit. 46However, that which is spiritual is not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47#Jn 3:31; Ge 2:7; 3:19The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second man was the Lord from heaven. 48#Php 3:20–21As was the man of dust, so are those who are of dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 49#Ge 5:3; Ro 8:29As we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50#Mt 16:17Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51#1Co 13:2; Php 3:21Listen, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 52#Mt 24:31; Jn 5:25; Isa 27:13In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53#2Co 5:2–4; 1Jn 3:2For this corruptible will put on incorruption, and this mortal will put on immortality. 54#Isa 25:8; Rev 20:14When this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then the saying that is written shall come to pass: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”#Isa 25:8.
55#Hos 13:14 “O death, where is your sting?
O grave, where is your victory?”#Hos 13:14.
56#Ro 4:15The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57#Ro 8:37; 2Co 2:14But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
58#1Co 16:10; 2Pe 3:14Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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1 Corinthians 15
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Resurrection Essential to the Gospel
1Now brothers, I want to clarify # Or I make known for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand # Pr 24:16 on it. 2You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you — unless you believed for no purpose. # Or believed without careful thought, or believed in vain # Gl 4:11; Heb 6:8 3For I passed on to you # Jd 3 as most important what I also received:
that Christ died # 1Co 8:11 for our sins
according to the Scriptures, # Mt 26:54; 1Pt 1:20
4that He was buried, # Mt 27:59-60; Mk 15:46; Lk 23:53; Jn 19:41-42
that He was raised on the third day # 1Th 4:14
according to the Scriptures, # Ps 16:10; Is 53:10; Hs 6:2; Mt 12:40; Jn 2:22; Ac 2:25-32; 13:33-35; 26:22-23
5and that He appeared to Cephas, # Lk 24:34
then to the Twelve. # Mk 16:14; Lk 24:36; Jn 20:19,26; Ac 10:41
6Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time; # Mt 28:10-20
most of them are still alive,
but some have fallen asleep.
7Then He appeared to James, # Jms 1:1
then to all the apostles. # Ac 1:3-11
8Last of all, as to one abnormally born, # Or one whose birth was unusual, He # 1Tm 1:13-16
He also appeared to me. # Ac 9:1-8
9For I am the least of the apostles, # Eph 3:8; 1Tm 1:16-17 unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted # Php 3:6 the church of God. 10But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me. # 2Co 3:5; Php 2:13; Col 1:29 11Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.
Resurrection Essential to the Faith
12Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, # Mt 17:9 how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”? # Mt 22:23; Mk 12:18; Lk 20:27; Ac 23:8; 2Tm 2:18 13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith. # Or proclamation is useless, and your faith also is useless, or proclamation is empty, and your faith also is empty 15In addition, we are found to be false witnesses # Mt 26:60 about God, because we have testified # Jn 15:26 about God that He raised up Christ — whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised. 17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. 18Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ # 1Th 4:16; 1Pt 5:14 have also perished. 19If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.
Christ’s Resurrection Guarantees Ours
20But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits # Ex 23:19; Lv 2:12; Rm 8:23; Col 1:18 of those who have fallen asleep. 21For since death # Mt 10:21; Jn 8:51; Php 3:10 came through a man, # Gn 3:1-7; Rm 5:12-14 the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. # Mt 28:5-6; Mk 16:6; Lk 24:5-8,34; Jn 11:25; 20:9,15-18 22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. # Rm 14:9 23But each in his own order: # 1Th 4:17 Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ. 24Then comes the end, # Mt 24:6; Mk 13:7 when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, # Mt 5:16; 11:27; Lk 11:13; Jn 8:42; Eph 5:20 when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power. # Ac 8:10; Eph 1:21; 1Pt 3:22 25For He must reign # Lk 1:33; Rv 11:15 until He puts all His enemies under His feet. # Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44; Eph 1:22 26The last enemy to be abolished is death. # 2Co 5:4 27For God has put everything under His feet. # Ps 8:6 # Ps 8:6 But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception. 28And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son # Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all. # Ps 104:24; Eph 1:23
Resurrection Supported by Christian Experience
29Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them? # Other mss read for the dead 30Why are we in danger every hour? 31I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day! # Rm 8:36 32If I fought wild animals in Ephesus # Eph 1:1 with only human hope, # Lit Ephesus according to man what good did that do me? # Lit what to me the profit? # 1Th 2:19 If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. # Is 22:13 # Is 22:13 33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” # A quotation from the poet Menander, Thais, 218 34Come to your senses # Lit Sober up righteously # Ti 2:12 and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame. # 1Co 4:14
The Nature of the Resurrection Body
35But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come? ” 36Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life # Jn 12:24 unless it dies. 37And as for what you sow — you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, # Lit but a naked seed perhaps of wheat or another grain. 38But God gives it a body as He wants, # Ps 143:10; Pr 16:9; Jn 5:30; Gl 1:4; Eph 1:9; 1Jn 2:17 and to each of the seeds its own body. 39Not all flesh # Php 3:3 is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor # Lk 9:31-32; Ac 22:11 of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones. 41There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for one star differs from another star in splendor. 42So it is with the resurrection of the dead:
Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption; # Rm 2:7; Eph 6:24; 2Tm 1:10
43sown in dishonor, # 2Co 6:8 raised in glory; # 1Pt 5:4
sown in weakness, raised in power; # Mk 5:30; Lk 1:35; 6:19; Ac 19:11; 2Co 13:4; Rv 11:17
44sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; # Gn 2:7 # Gn 2:7 the last Adam # Rm 8:2 became a life-giving Spirit. 46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.
47The first man was from the earth
and made of dust; # Gn 2:7; 3:19; Ps 90:3
the second man is # Other mss add the Lord from heaven.
48Like the man made of dust,
so are those who are made of dust;
like the heavenly man,
so are those who are heavenly. # Php 3:20-21
49And just as we have borne
the image # Gn 1:27 of the man made of dust,
we will also bear
the image of the heavenly man. # 1Jn 3:2
Victorious Resurrection
50Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh # Php 3:3 and blood # Mt 16:17 cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption. 51Listen! I am telling you a mystery:
We will not all fall asleep,
but we will all be changed,
52in a moment, in the blink of an eye,
at the last trumpet. # Mt 24:31; 1Pt 1:5
For the trumpet will sound,
and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we will be changed.
53For this corruptible must be clothed # Pr 31:25
with incorruptibility, # 1Pt 1:18
and this mortal must be clothed
with immortality.
54When this corruptible is clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal is clothed
with immortality,
then the saying that is written will take place:
Death has been swallowed up # Mt 23:24 in victory. # Is 25:8 # Is 25:8
55Death, where is your victory?
Death, where is your sting? # Hs 13:14 # Hs 13:14
56Now the sting of death is sin,
and the power of sin # Rm 4:15 is the law. # Gl 5:4
57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory # 1Jn 5:5
through our Lord Jesus Christ!
58Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, # Mk 14:6; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14-26 knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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