New Testament in a Year

²⁹ Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? why are they then baptized for them?

³⁰ Why also are we in danger every hour?

³¹ I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³² If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

³³ Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

³⁴ Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.

³⁵ But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? or with what manner of body shall they come?

³⁶ Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

³⁷ And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be; but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

³⁸ But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.

⁴⁰ And there are bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

⁴¹ One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.

⁴³ It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power.

⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written:

⁴⁵ The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

⁴⁶ Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; afterwards that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

⁴⁸ Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.

⁴⁹ Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed.

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴ And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

⁵⁵ O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

⁵⁶ Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable; always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.