| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you--unless you believed for no purpose. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Last of all, as to one abnormally born, He also appeared to me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But by God's grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God's grace that was with me. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, "There is no resurrection of the dead"? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified about God that He raised up Christ--whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For He must reign until He puts all His enemies under His feet. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The last enemy to be abolished is death. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For God has put everything under His feet. But when it says "everything" is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Why are we in danger every hour? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day! |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?" |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37And as for what you sow--you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38But God gives it a body as He wants, and to each of the seeds its own body. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for one star differs from another star in splendor. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42So it is with the resurrection of the dead: Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption; |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43sown in dishonor, raised in glory; sown in weakness, raised in power; |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47The first man was from the earth and made of dust; the second man is from heaven. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Like the man made of dust, so are those who are made of dust; like the heavenly man, so are those who are heavenly. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49And just as we have borne the image of the man made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenly man. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51Listen! I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54When this corruptible is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: Death has been swallowed up in victory. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! |
| 58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord's work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. |
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