Book of Common Prayer

¹² If Christ is preached, that he rose from the dead, how is it that some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there is no rising again of the dead, then Christ is not risen. ¹⁴ If Christ is not risen, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is also in vain. ¹⁵ Yea, and we are found to be false witnesses of God, for we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise up if it be so that the dead rise not again. ¹⁶ For if the dead do not rise again, then Christ is not risen again. ¹⁷ And if it be so that Christ did not rise, then your faith is in vain, and you are still in your sins. ¹⁸ And, moreover, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If it is in this life only that we believe on Christ, then we are of all men the most miserable.

²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who sleep. ²¹ For by a man came death, and by a man came the resurrection of the dead. ²² For as through Adam all die, even so through Christ shall all be made alive, ²³ and each one in his own order. The first is Christ, then those who are Christ’s at his coming. ²⁴ Then comes the end, when he has delivered up the kingdom to God the Father, when he has put down all rule, authority, and power. ²⁵ For he must reign till he has put all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. ²⁷ For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is evident that he who put all things under him is excepted. ²⁸ When all things are subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him who put things under him, so that God may be all in all things.

⁹ After Jesus had risen on the day after the Sabbath day, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. ¹⁰ And she went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. ¹¹ And though they heard that he was alive and he had appeared to her, yet they did not believe it.

¹² After that, he appeared to two of them as a stranger when they were walking and going into the country. ¹³ And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.

¹⁴ After that, he appeared to the eleven as they sat at food, and cast in their teeth their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they would not believe those who had seen him after his resurrection. ¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to all creatures. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be damned. ¹⁷ And these signs will follow those who believe: in my name they will cast out devils, and will speak with new tongues, ¹⁸ and will kill serpents. And if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them. They will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover.

¹⁹ So then, when the Lord had spoken to them, he was received into heaven and sat down on the right hand of God. ²⁰ And they went forth and preached everywhere. And the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word with miracles that followed.

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