| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Last of all, as though I had been born at the wrong time, I also saw him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For I am the least of all the apostles. In fact, I’m not even worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted God’s church. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach, for we all preach the same message you have already believed. The Resurrection of the Dead |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But tell me this—since we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And we apostles would all be lying about God—for we have said that God raised Christ from the grave. But that can’t be true if there is no resurrection of the dead. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.” (Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.) |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then, when all things are under his authority, the Son will put himself under God’s authority, so that God, who gave his Son authority over all things, will be utterly supreme over everything everywhere. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29If the dead will not be raised, what point is there in people being baptized for those who are dead? Why do it unless the dead will someday rise again? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30And why should we ourselves risk our lives hour by hour? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For I swear, dear brothers and sisters, that I face death daily. This is as certain as my pride in what Christ Jesus our Lord has done in you. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And what value was there in fighting wild beasts—those people of Ephesus —if there will be no resurrection from the dead? And if there is no resurrection, “Let’s feast and drink, for tomorrow we die!” |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Don’t be fooled by those who say such things, for “bad company corrupts good character.” |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Think carefully about what is right, and stop sinning. For to your shame I say that some of you don’t know God at all. The Resurrection Body |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?” |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36What a foolish question! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t grow into a plant unless it dies first. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have. A different plant grows from each kind of seed. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Similarly there are different kinds of flesh—one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41The sun has one kind of glory, while the moon and stars each have another kind. And even the stars differ from each other in their glory. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that our physical bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? ” |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. |
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