New Testament in a Year

²⁹ Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?

³⁰ why also do we stand in peril every hour?

³¹ Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

³² if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

³⁴ awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say [it].

³⁵ But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?

³⁶ unwise! thou -- what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;

³⁷ and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

³⁸ and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.

³⁹ All flesh [is] not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;

⁴⁰ and [there are] heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one [is] the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;

⁴¹ one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.

⁴² So also [is] the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

⁴³ it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

⁴⁵ so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam [is] for a life-giving spirit,

⁴⁶ but that which is spiritual [is] not first, but that which [was] natural, afterwards that which [is] spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man [is] out of the earth, earthy; the second man [is] the Lord out of heaven;

⁴⁸ as [is] the earthy, such [are] also the earthy; and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] also the heavenly;

⁴⁹ and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰ And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

⁵¹ lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:

⁵³ for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

⁵⁴ and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;

⁵⁵ where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'

⁵⁶ and the sting of the death [is] the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

⁵⁷ and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁵⁸ so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.