1 AND I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand;
2 through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word with which I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;
4 and that he was buried, and that he has risen on the third day according to the Scriptures;
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve;
6 after that, he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he appeared to James; then to all the apostles.
8 And last of all he appeared to me also, as the one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy 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 which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached that he has risen from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ risen;
14 and if Christ has not risen, then is our preaching vain, and vain also your faith.
15 And we are also found false witnesses of God; because we testified of God, that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not, if it be so that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, neither has Christ risen;
17 and if Christ has not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then also they who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now Christ has risen from the dead, the first-fruits of those who sleep.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ will all be made alive.
23 But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits; afterward they who are Christ's at his coming.
24 Then comes the end, when he delivers up the kingdom to God, the Father; when he shall have done away all rule, and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 As the last enemy, Death shall be done away. For he subjected all things under his feet.
27 But when he says, All things are subjected, it is manifest that he is excepted, who subjected all things to him.
28 And when all things shall be subjected to him, then will also the Son himself be subject to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then immersed for them?
30 Why also are we in peril every hour?
31 I protest by my glorying in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; For to-morrow we die.
33 Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.
34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I say it to your shame.
35 But some one will say: How do the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come?
36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die;
37 and what thou sowest, not the body that shall be sowest thou, but bare grain, perchance of wheat, or of some other grain.
38 But God gives it a body as it pleased him, and to each of the seeds its own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, another of birds.
40 There are also heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one, and that of the earthly is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it rises in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonor, it rises in glory. It is sown in weakness, it rises in power.
44 It is sown a natural body, it rises a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual.
45 So also it is written: The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
46 But the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and afterward the spiritual.
47 The first man was of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
48 As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we bore the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 And when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass the saying, that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 Where, O death, is thy sting? Where, O death, is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength 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 brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
