New Testament in a Year

15 Soothly, brethren, I make the gospel known to you, which I have preached to you, which also ye have taken, in which [and] ye stand,

² by which also ye shall be saved [by which and ye be saved]; by which reason I have preached to you, if ye hold, if ye have not believed idly.

³ For I betook to you at the beginning that thing which also I have received; that Christ was dead for our sins, by the scriptures;^[a]

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he rose again in the third day, after [the] scriptures;

⁵ and that he was seen to Cephas, and after these things to eleven;

⁶ afterward he was seen to more than five hundred brethren together, of which many live yet, but some be dead^[b];

⁷ afterward he was seen to James, and afterward to all the apostles.

⁸ And last of all he was seen also to me, as to a dead born child [as to a mis-born child].

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, that am not worthy to be called apostle, for I pursued the church of God.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that thing that I am; and his grace was not void in me [and his grace was not void, or idle, in me]. For I travailed more plenteously than all they [But I travailed more plenteously than all they]; but not I, but the grace of God with me.

¹¹ But whether I, or they, so we have preached, and so ye have believed.

¹² And if Christ is preached, that he rose again from death [from dead], how say some men among you [how say some in you], that the again-rising of dead men is not?

¹³ And if the again-rising of dead men is not, neither Christ rose again from death [neither Christ rose again].

¹⁴ And if Christ rose not, our preaching is vain, our faith is vain.

¹⁵ [Forsooth] And we be found false witnesses of God, for we have said witnessing against God, that he raised Christ, whom he raised not, if dead men rise not again.

¹⁶ For why if dead men rise not again, neither Christ rose again;

¹⁷ and if Christ rose not again, our faith is vain; and yet ye be in your sins.

¹⁸ And then they that have died in Christ, have perished. [Therefore and they that slept, or died, in Christ, have perished.]

¹⁹ If in this life only we be hoping in Christ, we be more wretches than all men.

²⁰ But now Christ hath risen again from death, the first fruit of dead men; [Now forsooth Christ rose again, from dead, the first fruits of sleeping men;]

²¹ for death was by a man, and by a man is again-rising from death. [for soothly by a man death, and by a man again-rising of dead.]

²² And as in Adam all men die, so [and] in Christ all men shall be quickened.

²³ But each man in his order; the first fruit, Christ [first fruits, Christ], afterward they that be of Christ, that believed in the coming of Christ;

²⁴ afterward an end, when he shall betake the kingdom to God and to the Father, when he shall void all princehood, and power, and virtue.

²⁵ But it behooveth him to reign, till he put all his enemies under his feet.

²⁶ And at the last, death the enemy shall be destroyed; [Forsooth at the last, the enemy death shall be destroyed;]

²⁷ for he hath made subject all things under his feet. And when he saith, all things be subject to him, without doubt except him that subjected all things to him.

²⁸ And when all things [shall] be subjected to him, then the Son himself shall be subject to him, that made all things subject to him [that subjected all things to him], that God be all things in all things.