146 Praise ye the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!

² While I live will I praise the Lord; I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

³ Put not your trust in princes, nor in a son of man in whom there is no help.

⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

⁵ Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that therein is, who keepeth truth for ever;

⁷ who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth food to the hungry; the Lord looseth the prisoners.

⁸ The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind; the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down; the Lord loveth the righteous.

⁹ The Lord preserveth the strangers, He relieveth the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever, even Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord!

147 Praise ye the Lord! For it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.

² The Lord doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

³ He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

⁴ He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and of great power; His understanding is infinite.

⁶ The Lord lifteth up the meek; He casteth the wicked down to the ground.

⁷ Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God,

⁸ who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

⁹ He giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry.

¹⁰ He delighteth not in the strength of the horse; He taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹ The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy.

¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise thy God, O Zion!

¹³ For He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

¹⁴ He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

¹⁵ He sendeth forth His commandment upon the earth; His word runneth very swiftly.

¹⁶ He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes;

¹⁷ He casteth forth His ice like morsels; who can stand before His cold?

¹⁸ He sendeth out His word, and melteth them; He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.

¹⁹ He showeth His word unto Jacob, His statutes and His judgments unto Israel.

²⁰ He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord!

15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which you also have received, and wherein ye stand,

² by which ye also are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you— unless ye have believed in vain.

³ For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

⁴ and that He was buried, and that He arose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve,

⁶ and that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some have fallen asleep.

⁷ After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

⁸ And last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all — yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹¹ Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

¹² Now if Christ is preached, that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³ But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

¹⁴ and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

¹⁵ Yea, and we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up, if so it be that the dead rise not.

¹⁶ For if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised;

¹⁷ and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of those who slept.

²¹ For since by man came death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead.

²² For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive;

²³ but every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

²⁴ Then cometh the end when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when He shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power.

²⁵ For He must reign until He hath put all enemies under His feet.

²⁶ The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death,

²⁷ for “He hath put all things under His feet.” But when He saith “all things” are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted, who did put all things under Him.

²⁸ And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son Himself also be subject unto Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.