1   Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also ye received, and wherein ye stand: 2   By which also ye are saved, if ye retain ^note what I preached to you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3   For I delivered to you first, that which I also received, ^note That Christ died for our sins, ^note 4   according to the scriptures, ^note And that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day ^note according to the scriptures: And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. ^note 5   Afterwards he was seen by above five hundred ^note brethren at once, 6   of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep. 7   After this he was seen by James, then by all the apostles. ^note 8   Last of all he was seen by me also, as an untimely birth. ^note 9   For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church ^note of God. 10   But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain, but I laboured more abundantly than they all: ^note yet

not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11   Whether therefore I or they, so we preach, ^note and so ye believed. 12   But if Christ is preached, that he rose from the dead, how say some ^note among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13   For if there be no resurrection ^note of the dead, neither is Christ raised. 14   And if Christ be not raised, then is our preaching ^note vain, and your faith is also vain. 15   Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified from God, that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise, if the dead rise not. ^note 16   For if the dead rise not, neither is Christ raised: 17   And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are still in your sins. ^note 18   Then also they who sleep in Christ ^note are perished. 19   If in this life only we have hope ^note in Christ, we are more miserable than all men. 20   But now ^note is Christ risen from the dead, the first-fruit of them that slept. 21   For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22   For as through Adam all ^note die, even so through Christ shall all be made alive. 23   But every one in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, afterward ^note they who are Christ's, at his coming. 24   Then ^note cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom

to God, even the Father, when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. 25   For he must reign, ^note till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26   The last enemy that is destroyed is death. ^note For he hath put all things under his feet. 27   But when he saith, All things are put under him, it is manifest that he who did put all things under him ^note is excepted. 28   But when all things shall be put under him, then shall the Son himself also be subject ^note to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. 29   Else what shall they do, who are baptized for the dead? ^note If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them? 30   Why are we ^note also in danger every hour? I protest by your rejoicing, which I have ^note in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 31   If ^note after the manner of men, 32   I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow

we die. 33   Be not deceived. ^note Evil communications corrupt good manners. 34   Awake ^note to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

35   But some one ^note will say, How are the dead raised? And with what body do they come? 36   Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die, ^note 37   And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, ^note but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat, or of any other corn: 38   But God ^note giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to each of the seeds, its own body. 39   All flesh ^note is not the same flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, another of birds. 40   There are also heavenly, and there are earthly bodies: ^note but the glory of the heavenly is one, and that of the earthly another.

41   There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: and one star differeth from another star in glory. ^note 42   So also is the resurrection of the dead: ^note it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43   It is sown in dishonour; ^note it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44   It is sown ^note an animal body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body. 45   And so it is written, ^note The first Adam was made a living soul, ^note the last Adam is a quickening Spirit. 46   Yet the spiritual body was not first, but the animal; afterward the spiritual. 47   The first man was from the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. ^note 48   As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy, ^note and as was the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.17Q0333 49   And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. ^note

50   But ^note this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom

of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51   Behold, I tell you a mystery; ^note we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 52   In a moment, ^note in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53   For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. 54   So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, ^note Death is swallowed up in victory. ^note 55   O death, where is thy sting? ^note O Hades, where is thy victory; The sting of death is sin, ^note and the strength of sin is the law. 56   But thanks be to God, 57   who ^note giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58   Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, ^note unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

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