| 1. | Now I am reminding you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. |
| 2. | Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. |
| 3. | For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; |
| 4. | that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; |
| 5. | that he appeared to Kephas, then to the Twelve. |
| 6. | After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. |
| 7. | After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. |
| 8. | Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. |
| 9. | For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. |
| 10. | But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God (that is) with me. |
| 11. | Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed. |
| 12. | But if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? |
| 13. | If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. |
| 14. | And if Christ has not been raised, then empty (too) is our preaching; empty, too, your faith. |
| 15. | Then we are also false witnesses to God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if in fact the dead are not raised. |
| 16. | For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised, |
| 17. | and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. |
| 18. | Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. |
| 19. | If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all. |
| 20. | But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. |
| 21. | For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead came also through a human being. |
| 22. | For just as in Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life, |
| 23. | but each one in proper order: Christ the firstfruits; then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ; |
| 24. | then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power. |
| 25. | For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. |
| 26. | The last enemy to be destroyed is death, |
| 27. | for "he subjected everything under his feet." But when it says that everything has been subjected, it is clear that it excludes the one who subjected everything to him. |
| 28. | When everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will (also) be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all. |
| 29. | Otherwise, what will people accomplish by having themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they having themselves baptized for them? |
| 30. | Moreover, why are we endangering ourselves all the time? |
| 31. | Every day I face death; I swear it by the pride in you (brothers) that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
| 32. | If at Ephesus I fought with beasts, so to speak, what benefit was it to me? If the dead are not raised: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." |
| 33. | Do not be led astray: "Bad company corrupts good morals." |
| 34. | Become sober as you ought and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God; I say this to your shame. |
| 35. | But someone may say, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come back?" |
| 36. | You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies. |
| 37. | And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind; |
| 38. | but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body. |
| 39. | Not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for human beings, another kind of flesh for animals, another kind of flesh for birds, and another for fish. |
| 40. | There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the brightness of the heavenly is one kind and that of the earthly another. |
| 41. | The brightness of the sun is one kind, the brightness of the moon another, and the brightness of the stars another. For star differs from star in brightness. |
| 42. | So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible. |
| 43. | It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful. |
| 44. | It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one. |
| 45. | So, too, it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being," the last Adam a life-giving spirit. |
| 46. | But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual. |
| 47. | The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven. |
| 48. | As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly, and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly. |
| 49. | Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one. |
| 50. | This I declare, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. |
| 51. | Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, |
| 52. | in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. |
| 53. | For that which is corruptible must clothe itself with incorruptibility, and that which is mortal must clothe itself with immortality. |
| 54. | And when this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about: "Death is swallowed up in victory. |
| 55. | Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" |
| 56. | The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. |
| 57. | But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 58. | Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. |
