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哥林多前书 15
Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition

基督的复活

15 弟兄们，我要你们认清我先前传给你们的福音；这福音你们领受了，又靠着它站立得住， 2 你们若能够持守我传给你们的信息，就必因这福音得救，否则你们是徒然相信。

3 我当日所领受又传给你们的，最重要的就是：照圣经所说，基督为我们的罪死了， 4 而且埋葬了；又照圣经所说，第三天复活了， 5 还显给矶法看，又显给十二使徒看， 6 后来一次显给五百多弟兄看，其中一大半到现在还在，却也有已经睡了的。 7 以后他显给雅各看，再显给众使徒看， 8 最后也显给我看；我如同未到产期而生的人一般。 9 我原是使徒中最小的，不配称为使徒，因为我曾迫害过　神的教会。 10 然而，由于　神的恩典，我才成了今日的我，并且他所赐给我的恩典不是徒然的。我比众使徒格外劳苦；其实不是我，而是　神的恩典与我同在。 11 无论是我或是其他使徒，我们都如此传，你们也都如此信了。

死人的复活

12 既然我们传基督是从死人中复活了，怎么在你们中间有人说没有死人复活的事呢？ 13 若没有死人复活的事，基督就没有复活了。 14 基督若没有复活，我们所传的就是枉然，你们所信的也是枉然。 15 这样，我们甚至被当作是为　神妄作见证的，因为我们见证　神是使基督复活了。如果死人真的没有复活，　神就没有使基督复活了。 16 因为死人若不复活，基督也就没有复活了。 17 基督若没有复活，你们的信就是徒然，你们仍活在罪里。 18 就是在基督里睡了的人也灭亡了。 19 我们若靠基督只在今生有指望，就比所有的人更可怜了。

20 其实，基督已经从死人中复活，成为睡了之人初熟的果子。 21 既然死是因一人而来，死人复活也因一人而来。 22 在亚当里众人都死了；同样，在基督里众人也都要复活。 23 但各人是按着自己的次序复活：初熟的果子是基督；然后在他来的时候，是那些属于基督的。 24 再后，终结到了，那时基督既将一切执政的、掌权的、有权能的都毁灭了，就把国交给父　神。 25 因为基督必须掌权，等　神把一切仇敌都放在他的脚下。 26 他要毁灭的最后仇敌就是死亡。 27 因为经上说：“　神使万物都服在他的脚下。”既然说万物都服了他，那使万物屈服的，很明显地是不在其内了。 28 既然万物服了他，那时，子也要自己顺服那叫万物服他的，好使　神在万物之中，在万物之上。

29 不然，那些为死人受洗的，能做什么呢？如果死人不会复活，为什么替他们受洗呢？ 30 我们为什么要时刻冒险呢？ 31 弟兄们[a]，我在我们的主基督耶稣里，指着你们—我所夸的极力地说，我天天冒死。 32 从人的观点看来，我当日在以弗所同野兽搏斗，对我有什么益处呢？如果死人没有复活，

“让我们吃吃喝喝吧！
因为明天要死了。”

33 不要被欺骗了；

“滥交朋友败坏品德。”

34 你们要醒悟为善，不再犯罪；因为有人不认识　神。我说这话是要使你们羞愧。

复活的身体

35 但是有人会问：“死人怎样复活呢？他们带着什么身体来呢？” 36 无知的人哪，你所种的若不死就不能生。 37 并且你所种的不是那将来要有的形体，无论是麦子或别样谷物，都不过是子粒。 38 但　神随自己的意思给它一个形体，并叫各样子粒各有自己的形体。 39 不是所有的肉体都是同样的：人是一个样子，兽又是一个样子，鸟又是一个样子，鱼又是一个样子。 40 有天上的形体，也有地上的形体；但天上形体的荣光是一个样子，地上形体的荣光又是一个样子。 41 日有日的光辉，月有月的光辉，星有星的光辉；这星和那星的光辉也有区别。

42 死人复活也是这样。所种的是会朽坏的，复活的是不朽坏的； 43 所种的是羞辱的，复活的是荣耀的；所种的是软弱的，复活的是强壮的； 44 所种的是血肉的身体，复活的是灵性的身体。既有血肉的身体，也就有灵性的身体。 45 经上也是这样记着说：“首先的人亚当成了有生命的人”；末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵。 46 但是，不是属灵的在先，而是属血肉的在先，然后才是属灵的。 47 第一个人是出于地，是属于尘土；第二个人是出于天。 48 那属尘土的怎样，凡属尘土的也都怎样；属天的怎样，凡属天的也都怎样。 49 就如我们既有属尘土的形像，将来也必有属天的形像。

50 弟兄们，我要告诉你们的是：血肉之躯不能承受　神的国，必朽坏的也不能承受不朽坏的。 51 我如今把一件奥秘的事告诉你们：我们不是都要睡觉，而是都要改变， 52 就在一刹那，眨眼之间，号筒末次吹响的时候。因号筒要吹响，死人要复活成为不朽坏的，我们也要改变。 53 这会朽坏的必须变成[b]不朽坏的；这会死的总要变成不会死的。 54 当这会朽坏的变成不朽坏的，这会死的变成不会死的，那时经上所记“死亡已被胜利吞灭了”的话就应验了。

55 “死亡啊！你得胜的权势在哪里？
死亡啊！你的毒刺在哪里？”

56 死亡的毒刺就是罪，罪的权势就是律法。 57 感谢　神，他使我们藉着我们的主耶稣基督得胜。

58 所以，我亲爱的弟兄们，你们务要坚固，不可动摇，常常竭力多做主工，因为你们知道，你们在主里的劳苦不是徒然的。

Footnotes

  1. 15．31 有古卷没有“弟兄们”。
  2. 15．53 “变成”：原文直译“穿”；下同。
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歌 林 多 前 書 15
Chinese New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version

关于基督的福音

15 兄弟们，现在我要提醒你们记住我曾向你们传播的福音。你们接受了它，并在它之中继续得到力量。 2 如果你们恪守我传给你们的道，这信息就会使你们得到拯救，否则，你们就是在空洞地信。

3 我把自己领受到的信息传给了你们。我告诉你们，最重要的是：基督为我们的罪恶而死，正如《经》上所说的那样： 4 他被安葬了，又按照《经》上所说的那样，在第三天复活了， 5 他还出现在彼得 [a]面前，接着，出现在十二名使徒面前。 6 然后又在五百个兄弟面前同时出现。这些兄弟大部分人至今还活着，尽管有些已死了。 7 接着他又出现在雅各面前，然后又出现在所有的使徒面前， 8 最后，他还出现在我的面前，就好像我不是在正常情况下出生的。 9 因为我在使徒中最渺小，甚至不配被称作使徒，因为我曾经迫害过上帝的教会。 10 但由于上帝的恩典，我成为今天的我。他对我的恩典没有白费。我比其他使徒工作更努力，（但是，真正工作的那位并不是我，而是与我同在的上帝的恩典。） 11 因此，不论是我还是其他使徒，我们所传播的都是同样的事情，也就是你们所信的。

我们会死而复生

12 既然我们宣讲基督死而复活，你们中间怎么却有人说没有死而复活的事呢？ 13 假如没有死而复活的事，那么基督也就没有死而复活。 14 假如基督没有死而复活，我们的传教就一钱不值，你们的信仰也一钱不值。 15 并且我们也是在为上帝做假证，因为我们在上帝面前发誓作证说，他使耶稣从死里复活了。假如死人真不能复活，上帝就不曾使耶稣复活了。 16 如果死人不能复活，那么，基督也就没有复活了。 17 如果基督没有从死里复活，你们的信仰就是徒劳的，你们就仍然处在罪恶之中， 18 而且在基督里死去的人也已经灭亡了。 19 如果我们信基督的人的希望仅仅在于尘世的今生，那么我们就是全人类中最可悲的了。

20 但是，基督确实从死里复活了，他是所有沉睡在死亡之中的信徒的第一位复活者。 21 既然死亡来自于一个人，那么，死者复活也是来自于一个人。 22 正如众人皆为亚当死，同样，他们也皆因基督而活。 23 不过，每个人都有自己的次序。基督是第一个复活的，其次是当他再来时那些属于他的人。 24 然后，终结将会到来，到那时，基督将毁灭所有的统治者、当权者和所有的势力，把王国交给天父上帝。 25 基督一定要统治到上帝把基督的敌人都置于他的脚下为止。 26 最后将要被摧毁的敌人是死亡。 27 因为他说∶“上帝把一切都置于他的脚下。”《经》上说的“一切”都已经置于基督之下，显然，不包括上帝自己。正是上帝置一切于基督之下的。 28 做完这些，圣子本人才会被置于一切于他（圣子）之下的上帝之下。以便让上帝彻底地成为君临一切的万物之主。

29 如果人绝对不会从死里复活，那么那些为死人受洗礼的人在做什么呢？如果死人绝对不会复活，为什么人们还为他们受洗呢？

30 我们为什么会时时刻刻面临危险呢？ 31 我每天都面临死亡。兄弟们，这是真的，我以在主基督耶稣内为你们感到自豪而起誓。 32 如果我在以弗所与野兽博斗，仅仅是出于人的动机，我得到什么了呢？。如果死人不能复活，那么，“让我们吃吧喝吧，因为明天我们就要死去。”

33 不要上当受骗，“坏朋友会毁掉好习惯。” 34 你们现在应该清醒，不要再犯罪了。因为你们有人对上帝一无所知。我说这些，是为了让你们感到羞愧。

我们会有什么样的身体呢？

35 但是，也许有些人会问∶“死者怎样复活呢？他们会有什么样的身体呢？” 36 你们是多么地愚蠢啊！你们播的种子，除非先死去，否则就不会发芽生长。 37 你们播种的与后来要长成的“身体”并不一样。你们播种的东西只是一粒种子，或许是小麦种子，或是其它的种子。 38 上帝按照自己的决定，赋予它一个形体，并给了每一类种子它们自己的形体。 39 生物的肉体也不尽相同。人有人体，兽有兽体，鸟类有鸟类的形体，鱼类有鱼类的形体。 40 还有天体和地形。然而，天体有天体的光辉，地形有地形的光辉。 41 太阳有太阳的光辉，月亮有月亮的光辉，星星又有星星的光辉，而星星之间的光辉又不尽一致。

42 死者的复活也是如此。埋在土里的身体是易腐的，复活的身体却永不会腐朽； 43 入土的身体没有荣耀，复活的身体是荣耀的；入土的身体是软弱的，复活的身体是强壮的； 44 入土的是血肉之躯，复活的是属灵的身体。既然有血肉之躯，也就有属灵的身体。

45 《经》上说∶“第一个人，亚当成为一个活生生的人。”但是最后一个（基督）亚当是赐生命之灵。 46 先出现的不是属灵的，而是血肉之人。属灵的是在其后出现的。 47 第一个来自尘世的人由泥土所造。第二个人来自天堂。 48 属尘世的人，都像那个来自尘世的；属天的人，则都像那个来自天堂的人。 49 正如我们具有属尘世人的形象一样，我们也会具有那属天堂之人的形象。

50 兄弟们，我告诉你们：我们的血肉之躯不能继承上帝的王国；必朽的不能继承那不朽的。 听着，我告诉你们一个秘密，在最后的号声吹响之际，我们不会都死，但都会在眨眼之间迅速地改变，因为号角会吹响，死人将复活而成不朽，我们活着的人也会改变。 53 必朽的身体必须披上不朽的，垂死的身体必须披上不朽的。 54 当会腐朽的身体披上了不朽之身，垂死的身体穿上不死的外衣时，《经》上所说的就会实现：

“死亡在胜利中被吞没。” (A)

55 “死亡，你的胜利在哪里？
死亡，你伤害的力量在哪里？” (B)

56 伤害的死亡力量是罪，罪的力量是律法。 57 但是，感谢上帝！他通过我们的主耶稣基督赐给我们胜利。

58 因此，我亲爱的兄弟们，要站稳脚根，不要动摇，要一贯把自己完全彻底地奉献给主的事业，因为你们知道在主内工作绝不会是徒劳的。

Footnotes

  1. 歌 林 多 前 書 15:5 彼得： 阿拉米语“矶法”。
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1 Corinthians 15
New Catholic Bible

The Resurrection[a]

The Resurrection of Christ

Chapter 15

The Risen Christ, Foundation of Our Faith.[b] 1 And now, brethren, I want to remind you of the gospel I proclaimed to you, which you received and in which you stand firm. 2 Through it you are also being saved, provided that you are holding fast to what I proclaimed to you. If not, then you have believed in vain.

3 [c]For I handed on to you as of primary importance what I received: that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried and that he was raised to life on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and later to the Twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, although some have fallen asleep.[d] 7 After that he appeared to James,[e] and then to all the apostles.

8 Last of all, he appeared to me, as to one born abnormally. 9 For I am the least of the apostles. I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God. 10 However, by the grace of God I am what I am, and the grace he has bestowed upon me has not proved to be fruitless. Indeed, I have worked harder than any of them—although that should not be credited to me but to the grace of God within me. 11 But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach and what you have come to believe.

The Resurrection of the Dead

12 The Resurrection and Faith.[f] Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is useless, and so is your faith. 15 We are even false witnesses to God, for we testified that he raised Christ when he did not raise him up, assuming it is true that the dead are not raised.

16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is without any foundation, and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ are utterly lost. 19 If it is for just this life that we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable of all men.

20 Christ, the Firstfruits.[g] But Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came into the world through a man, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a man.

22 Just as in Adam all die, so all will be brought to life in Christ, 23 but each one in proper order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every sovereignty and authority and power.[h] 25 For he is destined to reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when it says “all things are put under,” it is obvious that this excludes the one who subjected everything to him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who made all things subject to him, so that God may be all in all.

29 Practical Faith. Otherwise, what will people accomplish when they have themselves baptized for the dead?[i] If the dead are not raised at all, why should anyone be baptized for them? 30 And why should we be placing ourselves in danger every hour? 31 I face death every day—that is as sure as the pride that I have in you, brethren, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

32 With only human hopes, what would I have gained by fighting those wild beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised,

“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”

33 Do not let anyone lead you astray. “Bad company corrupts good morals.” 34 Come to your senses and sin no more. For some of you have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

The Mode of the Resurrection

35 The Resurrected Body. Someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? What sort of body will they have when they come back?” 36 This is foolish. What you sow must die before it is given new life, 37 and what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare grain of wheat or of something else. 38 God gives to it a body that he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own particular body.

39 Not all flesh is alike. There is one kind for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The splendor of heavenly bodies is of one kind, and that of earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has a splendor of its own, the moon another splendor, and the stars still another. Indeed, the stars differ among themselves in splendor.

42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 What is sown in dishonor is raised as glorious. What is sown in weakness is raised in power. 44 What is sown is a physical body; what is raised is a spiritual body.

The Natural and the Spiritual Body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 As it is written, the first man, Adam, became a living being; the last Adam has become a lifegiving spirit. 46 But the spiritual body did not come first. Rather the natural body came first, and then the spiritual.

47 The first man was formed from the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven. 48 The man formed from dust is the pattern for earthly people; the heavenly man is the pattern for those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man formed from dust, so shall we also bear the likeness of the heavenly one.

50 Where, O Death, Is Your Victory?[j] What I am asserting, brethren, is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor can the perishable inherit what is imperishable.

51 Listen while I tell you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed 52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.[k] 53 For this perishable body must be clothed with the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then will the words that are written be fulfilled:

“Death has been swallowed up in victory.
55     Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power 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, stand firm and immovable, devoting yourselves completely to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:1 According to Greek thought, the soul is imprisoned in the body; it alone is destined for immortality, and death comes to set it free. As heirs of this mentality, the Corinthians are unable to understand why there should be a resurrection of the body. Does Christianity perhaps desire that the soul again become a prisoner? Paul corrects this notion, which is not in accord with the Christian faith.
    The biblical tradition holds that the human being is one, created by God in body and soul. Death does not constitute the deliverance of the soul, but the unraveling of this unity. It is a violent state produced by sin. In atoning for sin, Christ has conquered death. It is the whole person that is saved and the whole person that is involved in the resurrection. But Paul takes account of the objection that the Greeks can bring up: the resurrection is not a simple return to the earthly condition; the risen body does not limit the aspirations of the spirit. It will be “spiritual,” a new creation in the risen Christ.
  2. 1 Corinthians 15:1 Paul takes as his starting point a fact: the resurrection of Christ. This is the primordial certainty of the Christian faith. He recalls this teaching of the Church and confirms it by listing the witnesses who had seen the risen Christ. In this passage, we find the main elements of the Christian creed and, at the same time, the earliest written witness to the handing on of the original teaching of the Church and to the appearances of Jesus Christ.
  3. 1 Corinthians 15:3 Paul offers two lines of testimony for Christ’s Passion and Resurrection: (1) the testimony of the Old Testament (e.g., Ps 16:8-11; Isa 53:5f, 11) and (2) the testimony of eyewitnesses (Acts 1:21f). He lists only six appearances of the risen Christ; the Gospels and Acts offer ten (see note on Mt 28:10).
  4. 1 Corinthians 15:6 Have fallen asleep: an image of death. The same expression is used in vv. 18, 20, and 51, and is the usual one in the New Testament. In it, Christians indirectly expressed their faith in the resurrection (in Greek the same verb means both “to awaken” and “to bring back to life”). From this phrase, we also derive our word “cemetery,” i.e., literally, a place of sleepers.
  5. 1 Corinthians 15:7 Appeared to James: Paul inserts the risen Lord’s appearance to James as a kind of transition to his own experience of seeing Christ. Like Paul, James, “the brother of the Lord” (Gal 1:19), had not been a disciple of Jesus (see Acts 1:12f). An account of such an appearance to James is found in the Gospel of the Hebrews, an apocryphal Jewish-Christian gospel.
  6. 1 Corinthians 15:12 The Resurrection of Jesus, to which the apostles are witnesses, is the basic proof that there is a resurrection of the dead; the Old Testament initially voiced a hope of this (Ps 16:10; Job 19:25; Ezek 37:10) and later taught it explicitly (2 Mac 7:9). The Resurrection of Jesus is thus the very foundation of our faith; Christ is the firstborn of the dead, who will rise in their turn.
  7. 1 Corinthians 15:20 Paul contrasts two states of the human race: on the one side, the fallen state of sin, symbolized by Adam; on the other, the state of life and salvation brought about by Christ (see Rom 5:17-21).
  8. 1 Corinthians 15:24 Sovereignty and authority and power: these words signify all the forces, angelic and human, that are opposed to the Kingdom of God (see 1 Cor 2:6; Col 2:15).
  9. 1 Corinthians 15:29 Baptized for the dead (v. 29) refers to a rite, unknown to us, a type of baptism by proxy. Paul uses the image of wild beasts (v. 32) to express the hostility he encountered at Ephesus. In v. 33 he is citing Menander, a Greek comic poet, although by this time the saying may already have become a popular proverb.
  10. 1 Corinthians 15:50 Using images traditional in the Bible, Paul describes in a few lines the great day of universal salvation, when humanity reaches its destiny.
  11. 1 Corinthians 15:52 The trumpet was part of apocalyptic choreography (see Mt 24:31; 1 Thes 4:16); it symbolized the solemn proclamation of the divine plan (see the seven trumpets of the Book of Revelation: 8:6-12; 9:1-21; 11:15-19).
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1 Corinthians 15
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The Resurrection of Christ

15 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel(A) I preached to you,(B) which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved,(C) if you hold firmly(D) to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3 For what I received(E) I passed on to you(F) as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins(G) according to the Scriptures,(H) 4 that he was buried,(I) that he was raised(J) on the third day(K) according to the Scriptures,(L) 5 and that he appeared to Cephas,[b](M) and then to the Twelve.(N) 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.(O) 7 Then he appeared to James,(P) then to all the apostles,(Q) 8 and last of all he appeared to me also,(R) as to one abnormally born.

9 For I am the least of the apostles(S) and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted(T) the church of God.(U) 10 But by the grace(V) of God I am what I am, and his grace to me(W) was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them(X)—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.(Y) 11 Whether, then, it is I or they,(Z) this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

The Resurrection of the Dead

12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead,(AA) how can some of you say that there is no resurrection(AB) of the dead?(AC) 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised,(AD) our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead.(AE) But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.(AF) 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep(AG) in Christ are lost. 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.(AH)

20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead,(AI) the firstfruits(AJ) of those who have fallen asleep.(AK) 21 For since death came through a man,(AL) the resurrection of the dead(AM) comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.(AN) 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits;(AO) then, when he comes,(AP) those who belong to him.(AQ) 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom(AR) to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.(AS) 25 For he must reign(AT) until he has put all his enemies under his feet.(AU) 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.(AV) 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.”[c](AW) Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.(AX) 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him,(AY) so that God may be all in all.(AZ)

29 Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? 30 And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour?(BA) 31 I face death every day(BB)—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If I fought wild beasts(BC) in Ephesus(BD) with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,

“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”[d](BE)

33 Do not be misled:(BF) “Bad company corrupts good character.”[e](BG) 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God(BH)—I say this to your shame.(BI)

The Resurrection Body

35 But someone will ask,(BJ) “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”(BK) 36 How foolish!(BL) What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.(BM) 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.(BN) 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor,(BO) the moon another and the stars another;(BP) and star differs from star in splendor.

42 So will it be(BQ) with the resurrection of the dead.(BR) The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;(BS) 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory;(BT) it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.(BU)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[f];(BV) the last Adam,(BW) a life-giving spirit.(BX) 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.(BY) 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth;(BZ) the second man is of heaven.(CA) 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.(CB) 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,(CC) so shall we[g] bear the image of the heavenly man.(CD)

50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood(CE) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,(CF) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.(CG) 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery:(CH) We will not all sleep,(CI) but we will all be changed(CJ)— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,(CK) the dead(CL) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable(CM) must clothe itself with the imperishable,(CN) and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[h](CO)

55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”[i](CP)

56 The sting of death is sin,(CQ) and the power of sin is the law.(CR) 57 But thanks be to God!(CS) He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.(CT)

58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,(CU) because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.(CV)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:3 Or you at the first
  2. 1 Corinthians 15:5 That is, Peter
  3. 1 Corinthians 15:27 Psalm 8:6
  4. 1 Corinthians 15:32 Isaiah 22:13
  5. 1 Corinthians 15:33 From the Greek poet Menander
  6. 1 Corinthians 15:45 Gen. 2:7
  7. 1 Corinthians 15:49 Some early manuscripts so let us
  8. 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 25:8
  9. 1 Corinthians 15:55 Hosea 13:14
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