1 Corinthians 15
15
1Now, Achim b'Moshiach, I draw your attention to the Besuras HaGeulah which I proclaimed to you, which also you received, in which also you stand firm,#15:1 Isa 40:9
2Through which also you are brought to Yeshu'at Eloheinu, provided you hold fast to the dvar torah which I proclaimed to you, unless you received it in vain.#15:2 cf. 1C 15:10-12,14
3For I transmitted and handed on to you as authoritative torah, rishon (first), that which was also transmitted and handed on to me as authoritative torah:#15:3 Ga 1:18 that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach died on behalf of avoneinu#15:3 Isa 1:4 (our averos, iniquities, gross wickedness, depravities) according to the Kitvei Hakodesh,#15:3 Isa 53:8-9; Dan 9:26
4And that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was buried in a kever#15:4 Isa 53:9 (grave, burial place), and that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was raised in a Techiyah from the mesim on YOM HASHLISHI (Gn 1:11-13#15:4 T.N. Chag HaBikkurim Lv 23:10-11, see 1C 15:20)#15:4 Ex 19:11,15-16; Josh 1:11; Num 19:11-13; Jon 1:17; Hos 6:2; 2Kgs 20:5,8; Ezra 6:15 according to the Kitvei Hakodesh,#15:4 Ps 16:10
5And that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by Kefa, then by the Sheneym Asar,
6Afterward Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by over five hundred Achim b'Moshiach at one time, of whom most remain alive until now, though some sleep the sleep of the mesim.
7Afterward, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by Ya'akov,#15:7 Ga 1:19, also see Mt 13:55 then by all the Shlichim.
8And, last of all, even as if to one born not normally,#15:8 like the rest Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by me also.#15:8 cf. 1C 9:1
9For I am the least of Moshiachʼs Shlichim, not qualified to be called a Shliach, because I brought redifah (persecution) upon the Kehillah of Hashem.
10But by the Chen v'Chesed Hashem, I am what I am. And the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to me was not in vain, but more abundantly than all the Moshiachʼs Shlichim I labored, yet it was not I, but the Chen v'Chesed Hashem with me.
11Whether it was I or those others, so we preached as Moshiachʼs maggidim, and so you had emunah and became Moshiachʼs ma'aminim.
12And if Moshiach is being preached that from the Mesim (Dead ones) he has had his Techiyah (Resurrection), how is it that some among you say that there is no Techiyas HaMesim?
13And if there is no Techiyas HaMesim, neither then has Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach been raised.
14And if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has not been raised, then our darshenen to you was in vain and also in vain is your emunah (faith).
15Moreover, we are found also to be edei sheker (false witnesses)#15:15 Ex 20:16; Dt 19:16-21 misrepresenting Hashem Himself, because we gave solemn edut#15:15 1C 1:6 (testimony) as in the presence of G-d that Hashem raised Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach — whom, of course, He did not raise if, as you say, the Mesim are not bemetzius (in fact) raised.
16For if the Mesim (Dead persons) have not Techiyah, neither has Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had a Techiyah;
17And if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has not already had his Techiyah from the Mesim, your emunah is futile, you are still in your averos (sins),
18And even the ones who sleep the sleep of the Mesim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach have perished.
19Listen, if for the Olam Hazeh only we have tikvateinu in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, we are to be pitied more than kol Bnei Adam.
20But in fact Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has had His Techiyah! Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is the Bikkurim#15:20 Gn 1:11-13; Num 28:26; Lv 23:10-11 (Firstfruits), the Firstfruits of the ones having fallen asleep [in Moshiach].
21For als (since) through an Adam (Man) came mavet,#15:21 Gn 2:17 also through an Adam (Man, [Moshiach]) came the Techiyas HaMesim.
22For as in Adam all die,#15:22 Gn 3:19 so also in Moshiach all will be made alive.
23But each one in his own order: the Bikkurim, Moshiach; afterward, the ones of Moshiach at the Bias HaMoshiach;
24Then HaKetz when Moshiach gives over the Malchut Hashem to G-d, even Elohim Avinu,#15:24 Dan 2:44; 7:13-14,27 after He has abolished all Misrah and Shilton and Gevurah.
25For it is necessary for Moshiach to reign until Hashem puts all His OYVIM (enemies) under His RAGLAYIM#15:25 Ps 110:1 (feet).#15:25 Isa 9:7; 52:7
26The last Oyev (Enemy) to be abolished is Mavet.
27For KOL HASHEM put TACHAT RAGLAV (All things He subjected under His feet),#15:27 Ps 8:6 [7] but when He says that KOL (all things) have been subjected, it is peshat (plain, literal) that this does not include the One#15:27 Hashem who put all things in subjection under Moshiach.
28But, when all things are subjected to Hashem, then also the Zun fun der Oybershter#15:28 Moshiach himself will be subjected to the One (Hashem) having subjected all things under him (Moshiach), that in all things G-d may be all.#15:28 i.e., preeminent
29Otherwise, what will they do, the ones being given tevilah on behalf of the dead? If the Mesim really are not raised, why indeed are they given tevilah on behalf of the Mesim?
30Why also are we putting ourselves at risk and in danger every hour?
31Daily I die and that is as true a fact, Achim b'Moshiach, as it is that I glory over you in Moshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.
32If it were a mere humanistic matter, my fighting, so to speak, with wild beasts in Ephesus,#15:32 Ac 19; 2C 1:3-10 what do I gain? If there is no Techiyas HaMesim, “Let us eat and drink, KI MACHAR NAMUT (For tomorrow we die).”#15:32 Isa 22:13; 56:12
33Do not fall under a delusion. “Bad chavrusashaft (association, influence or hashpa'ah) corrupts good midos.”
34Wake up and come to your senses. Start walking in the derech tzaddikim.#15:34 Ps 1:6 Stop committing averos. Some among you have no saving da'as of Hashem. I say this to your bushah (shame).
35But someone will question, “How does this Techiyas HaMesim come about? And in the Techiyas HaMesim, with what kind of body will they come?”#15:35 Ezek 37:3
36Yold, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies!
37And what is it you sow? Not the body that is to be, but something else: a bare zera (seed), efsher (perhaps) of wheat or some other grain.
38However, Hashem chooses#15:38 another body to give to the#15:38 “dead” and buried seed, and to each kind of zera is given by Hashem its own body.#15:38 Gn 1:11-13; 47:18-19
39Now basar is not all the same: Bnei Adam have one kind of basar; animals, another; birds, another; fish, another;
40and there are gufot baShomayim (heavenly bodies), and gufot ba'aretz (earthly bodies), but the kavod of the heavenly is of one kind, and the kavod of the earthly of another kind.
41There is one kavod (glory) of the shemesh (sun), and another kavod (glory) of the levanah (moon), and another kavod (glory) of the kochavim (stars), for in kavod (glory), kochav differs from kochav.#15:41 Ps 19:4-6; 8:1,3
42So also is the Techiyas HaMesim. That which is sown is of one kind, perishable; that which is raised up is of another kind, imperishable.#15:42 Dan 12:3
43What is sown without kavod is raised in kavod. What is sown in weakness is raised in ko'ach (power).
44What is sown a natural body, is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
45So, also, it has been written, VAY'HI HAADAM L'NEFESH CHAYYAH (And the [first] Man became a living soul);#15:45 Gn 2:7 but the Adam haacharon (last Adam) became a Ruach mechayyeh.#15:45 Jn 5:26
46But the spiritual body is not harishon, but the natural; then afterward the spiritual.
47The Adam Harishon is AFAR MIN HA'ADAMAH (dust from the earth, ground),#15:47 Gn 2:7 out of ha'aretz. The Adam HaSheini (the second Adam) is out of Shomayim.#15:47 Dan 7:13; Ps 90:3
48As was the Adam of dust, such also are those of the dust; as was the Adam of Shomayim, such also are those who are of Shomayim.
49And just as we have borne the demut of the Adam MIN AFAR HA'ADAMAH (from the dust of the earth),#15:49 Gn 2:7 so we will bear also the likeness of the Heavenly Adam (Man).#15:49 Gn 5:3
50Now this I say, Achim b'Moshiach, that basar vadahm cannot inherit the Malchut Hashem, neither can the perishable inherit the imperishable.#15:50 Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-26
51Hinei! I speak a sod (mystery) to you: we will not all sleep the sleep of the Mesim, but we will all be changed.
52In a rega (moment), in the wink of an eye, at the last shofar blast. For the shofar will sound, the Mesim (dead ones) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53For it is necessary for this perishable nature to put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature to put on the immortal.
54But when this perishable nature puts on the imperishable, and this mortal, the immortal, then the dvar hanevu'ah will come to pass that stands written, “He will swallow up death forever”#15:54 Isa 25:8 in victory.
55EHI DEVARECHA MAVET EHI KATAVECHA SHEOL? (Where are your plagues, O Death? Where is your destruction, O Sheol?)#15:55 Hos 13:14
56Now the sting of death is chet (sin) and the ko'ach (power) of chet (sin) is chukkat haTorah.#15:56 See Dt 27:26; Ga 3:1-13; Ro 7:7-13
57But Baruch Hashem, Who is giving us the Netzach (Victory) through Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
58So then, Chaverim and Achim b'Moshiach of mine, be steadfast, immovable, abounding always in the avodas kodesh of Adoneinu, have da'as that your po'al (work) is not in vain in Hashem.#15:58 2Chr 15:7; Isa 65:23
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1 Corinthians 15
15
The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection
1Now brothers and sisters, let me remind you [once again] of the good news [of salvation] which I preached to you, which you welcomed and accepted and on which you stand [by faith]. 2By this faith you are saved [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain [just superficially and without complete commitment].
3For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], 4and that He was buried, and that He was [bodily] raised on the third day according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], 5and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the #A title referring to the original disciples chosen by Jesus (including Judas). A few hours after betraying Jesus, Judas committed suicide (Matt 27:5) leaving only the eleven (Matt 28:16; Mark 16:14; Luke 24:9, 33).Twelve. 6After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, the majority of whom are still alive, but some have fallen asleep [in death]. 7Then He was seen by James, then by all the apostles, 8and last of all, as to one #Paul’s life-changing encounter with the resurrected Christ occurred on the road to Damascus (Acts 9).untimely (prematurely, traumatically) born, He appeared to me also. 9For I am the least [worthy] of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I [at one time] fiercely oppressed and violently persecuted the church of God. 10But by the [remarkable] grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not without effect. In fact, I worked harder than all of the apostles, though it was not I, but the grace of God [His unmerited favor and blessing which was] with me. 11So whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed and trusted in and relied on with confidence.
12Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how is it that #Perhaps these were converted Sadducees, who as a sect denied the possibility of a resurrection (Acts 23:8).some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; 14and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain [useless, amounting to nothing], and your faith is also vain [imaginary, unfounded, devoid of value and benefit—not based on truth]. 15We are even discovered to be false witnesses [misrepresenting] God, because we testified concerning Him that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised, either; 17and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless and powerless [mere delusion]; you are still in your sins [and under the control and penalty of sin]. 18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19If we who are [abiding] in Christ have hoped only in this life [and this is all there is], then we are of all people most miserable and to be pitied.
The Order of Resurrection
20But now [as things really are] Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, [and He became] the first fruits [that is, the first to be resurrected with an incorruptible, immortal body, foreshadowing the resurrection] of those who have fallen asleep [in death]. 21For since [it was] by a man that death came [into the world], it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come. 22For just as #Because of our physical nature as descendants of Adam.in Adam all die, so also #Because of our spiritual nature as born-again believers in Christ.in Christ all will be made alive. 23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s [own will be resurrected with incorruptible, immortal bodies] at His coming. 24After that comes the end (completion), when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after He has made inoperative and abolished every ruler and every authority and power. 25For Christ must reign [as King] until He has put all His enemies under His feet. 26The last enemy to be abolished and put to an end is death. 27For He (the Father) has put all things in subjection under His (Christ’s) feet. But when He says, “All things have been put in subjection [under Christ],” it is clear that He (the Father) who put all things in subjection to Him (Christ) is excepted [since the Father is not in subjection to His own Son]. 28However, when all things are subjected to Him (Christ), then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One (the Father) who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all [manifesting His glory without any opposition, the supreme indwelling and controlling factor of life].
29Otherwise, what will those do who are being #This has nothing to do with Christian baptism or salvation. Paul may be referring to the practices of a pagan religion that required a ritual washing to enter an afterlife.baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people even baptized for them? 30[For that matter] why are we [running such risks and putting ourselves] #Paul’s life was continuously threatened because of his public commitment to Christ.in danger [nearly] every hour [if there is no resurrection]? 31I assure you, believers, by the pride which I have in you in [your union with] Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily [I face death and die to self]. 32What good has it done me if, [merely] from a human point of view, I #This may refer figuratively to the furious crowd that rose up against Paul in Ephesus, rather than to literal animals (Acts 19:23-41).fought with wild animals at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised [at all], let us eat and drink [enjoying ourselves now], for tomorrow we die. 33Do not be deceived: #Paul quotes this one verse maxim from the writings of the Greek dramatist Menander (342-291 b.c.). “Bad company” in this case undoubtedly refers to the teachers who were denying the truth of the resurrection.“Bad company corrupts good morals.” 34Be sober-minded [be sensible, wake up from your spiritual stupor] as you ought, and stop sinning; for some [of you] have no knowledge of God [you are disgracefully ignorant of Him, and ignore His truths]. I say this to your shame.
35But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body will they come?” 36You fool! Every time you plant seed you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up and growing] unless it first dies. 37The seed you sow is not the body (the plant) which it is going to become, but it is a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other grain. 38But God gives it a body just as He planned, and to each kind of seed a body of its own [is given]. 39All flesh is not the same. There is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40There are also heavenly bodies [sun, moon and stars] and earthly bodies [humans, animals, and plants], but the glory and beauty of the heavenly is one kind, and the glory of the earthly is another. 41There is a glory and beauty of the sun, another glory of the moon, and yet another [distinctive] glory of the stars; and one star differs from another in glory and brilliance.
42So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The [human] body that is sown is perishable and mortal, it is raised imperishable and immortal. 43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength; 44it is sown a natural body [mortal, suited to earth], it is raised a spiritual body [immortal, suited to heaven]. As surely as there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life]. 46However, the spiritual [the immortal life] is not first, but the physical [the mortal life]; then the spiritual. 47The first man [Adam] is from the earth, earthy [made of dust]; the second Man [Christ, the Lord] is from heaven. 48As is the earthly man [the man of dust], so are those who are of earth; and as is the heavenly [Man], so are those who are of heaven. 49Just as we have borne the image of the earthly [the man of dust], #Two early mss read “let us also.”we will also bear the image of the heavenly [the Man of heaven].
The Mystery of Resurrection
50Now I say this, believers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit nor be part of the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (mortal) inherit the imperishable (immortal). 51Listen very carefully, I tell you a mystery [a secret truth decreed by God and previously hidden, but now revealed]; we will not all sleep [in death], but we will all be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed], 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at [the sound of] the last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [who believed in Christ] will be raised imperishable, and we will be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed]. 53For this perishable [part of us] must put on the imperishable [nature], and this mortal [part of us that is capable of dying] must put on immortality [which is freedom from death]. 54And when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the Scripture will be fulfilled that says, “Death is swallowed up in victory (vanquished forever). 55O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin [by which it brings death] is the law; 57but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory [as conquerors] through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord [always doing your best and doing more than is needed], being continually aware that your labor [even to the point of exhaustion] in the Lord is not futile nor wasted [it is never without purpose].
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