1    ^noteAnd I do you to vnderstand, brethren, the Gospel vvhich I preached to you, which also you receiued, in the vvhich also you stand,

2   by the vvhich also you are saued, after vvhat maner I preached vnto you if you keepe it, vnlesse you haue beleeued in vaine.

3   For ^{note note} I deliuered vnto you first of al vvhich I also receiued: that Christ died for our sinnes ^note according to the Scriptures:

4   and that he vvas buried, and that he rose againe the third day, ^note according to the scripture:

5   and that he vvas ^note seen of Cephas: and after that of the eleuen.

6   Then vvas he seen of moe th&ebar; fiue hundred brethren together: of vvhich many remaine vntil this present, & some are a sleepe.

7   Moreouer he vvas seen of Iames, then of al the Apostles.

8   And last of al, as it vvere of ^note an abortiue ^note he vvas seen also of me.

9   For I am the least of the Apostles, vvho am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persesecuted the Church of God.

10   But by the grace of God I am that vvhich I am: & his grace in me hath not been ^note void, &cross4; but I haue laboured more aboundantly then al they: yet not I, but the grace of God09Q1147 vvith me.

11   For vvhether I, or they, so vve preach, and so you haue beleeued.

12   But if Christ be preached that he is risen againe from the dead: hovv doe certaine among you say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13   And if there be no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ risen againe.

14   And if Christ be not risen againe, then vaine is our preaching, vaine also is your faith.

15   and vve are found also ^note false witnesses of God: because vve haue giuen testimonie against God, that he hath raised vp Christ, vvhom he hath not raised vp, if the dead rise not againe.

16   For if the dead rise not againe, neither is Christ risen againe.

17   And if Christ be not risen againe, vaine is your faith, for yet you are in your sinnes.

18   Then they also that are a sleepe in Christ, are perished.

19   If in this life onely vve be hoping in Christ, vve are more miserable then al men.

20   But novv Christ is risen againe from the dead, the ^note first fruites of them that sleepe:

21   for ^note by a man death: and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

22   And as in Adam al die, so also in Christ al shal be made aliue.

23   But ^note euery one in his ovvne order: the first fruites Christ, then they that are of Christ, that beleeued in his comming.

24   Then the ende, vvhen he shal haue deliuered the kingdom to God and the Father, vvhen he shal haue abolished al principalitie and authoritie and povver.

25   And he must reigne, Vntil he put al his enemies vnder his feete. ^note

26   And the enemie death shal be destroied last. For he hath subdued al things vnder his feete. ^note And vvhereas he saith,

27   Al things are subdued to him: Vndoubtedly, except him that subdued al things vnto him.

28   And vvhen al things shal be subdued to him: then the Sonne also him self shal be subiect to him that subdued al things vnto him, that God may be al in al.

29   Otherwise what shal they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not againe at al?

30   vvhy also are they baptized for them? vvhy also are vve in danger euery houre?

31   I die daily by your glorie brethren, vvhich I haue in Christ Iesvs our Lord.

32   If (according to man) I fought vvith beastes at Ephesus, vvhat doth it profit me, if the dead rise not againe? 09Q1148Let vs eate and drinke, for to morovv vve shal die. ^note

33   Be not seduced, Euil communications corrupt good maners. ^note

34   Avvake ye iust, and sinne not. for some haue not the knovvledge of God, I speake to your shame.

35   But some man saith, Hovv doe the dead rise againe? and vvith vvhat maner of body shal they come?

36   Foole, that vvhich thou sovvest is not quickened, vnlesse it die first.

37   And that vvhich thou sovvest, not the body that shal be, doest thou sovv: but bare graine, to vvit, of vvheate, or of some of the rest.

38   And God giueth it a body as he vvil: and to euery seede his proper body.

39   Not al flesh, is the same flesh: but one of men, an other of beastes, an other of birdes, an other of fishes.

40   And bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but one glorie of the celestial, and an other of the terrestrial.

41   One glorie of the sunne, an other glorie of the moone, and an other glorie of the starres. For ^note starre differeth from starre in glorie:

42   so also the resurrection of the dead. It is sovven in corruption, it shal rise in incorrupti&obar;.

43   It is sovv&ebar; in dishonour, it shal rise in glorie. It is

sovven in infirmitie, it shal rise in povver.

44   It is sovven a natural body: it shal rise a ^note spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual,

45   as it is vvritten, The first man Adam vvas made into a liuing soul: ^note the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

46   Yet that is not first vvhich is spiritual, but that vvhich is natural: aftervvard that vvhich is spiritual.

47   The first man of earth, earthly: the second man from heauen, heauenly.

48   Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly. and such as the heauenly, such also are the heauenly.

49   Therfore as vve haue borne the image of the earthly, let vs beare also the image of the heauenly.

50   This I say brethren, that ^note flesh and bloud can not possesse the kingdom of God: neither shal corruption possesse incorruption.

51    ^noteBehold I tel you a mysterie. Vve shal al in deede rise againe: but vve shal not al be changed.

52   In a moment, in the tvvinkling of an eie, at the ^note last trompet (for ^note the trompet shal sound) and the dead shal rise againe incorruptible: and vve shal be changed.

53   For this corruptible must doe on incorruption: & this mortal doe on immortalitie.

54   And vvhen this mortal hath done on immortalitie, then shal come to passe the saying that is vvritten, Death is svvallovved vp in victorie.

55   Death vvhere is thy victorie? Death vvhere is thy sting? ^note

56   And the sting of death, is sinne: and the povver of sinne is the Lavv.

57   But thankes be to God that hath giuen vs the victorie by our Lord Iesvs Christ. &cross4;

58   Therfore my beloued brethren, be stable & vnmoueable: abounding in the worke of our Lord alvvaies, knovving that your labour is not vaine in our Lord.

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