New Testament in a Year

15 And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

² through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

³ for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,

⁶ afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

⁷ afterwards he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

⁸ And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me,

⁹ for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

¹⁰ and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that [is] towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that [is] with me;

¹¹ whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

¹² And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

¹³ and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;

¹⁴ and if Christ hath not risen, then void [is] our preaching, and void also your faith,

¹⁵ and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

¹⁶ for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,

¹⁷ and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

¹⁸ then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

¹⁹ if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

²⁰ And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

²¹ for since through man [is] the death, also through man [is] a rising again of the dead,

²² for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

²³ and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

²⁴ then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --

²⁵ for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --

²⁶ the last enemy is done away -- death;

²⁷ for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, [it is] evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

²⁸ and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.