and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

Now if we preach that Christ has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you are saying that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised,

and if the Messiah has not been raised, then our message means nothing and your faith means nothing.

For if the dead are never raised, Christ has not been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is a mere delusion; you are still under the penalty of your sins.

If all that we have done has been to place our hope in Christ for this life, then we of all men are the most to be pitied.

But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.

for He has put everything in subjection under His feet. But when He says that everything has been put in subjection to Him, He Himself is evidently excepted who put it all in subjection to Him.

And when everything has been put in subjection to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has put everything in subjection to Him, so that God may be everything to everybody.

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

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true??Death has been triumphantly destroyed.

'Death has been swallowed up in victory! Where, O Death, is thy victory? Where, O Death, is thy sting?'

On the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store according as he hath been prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.

I will come to you as soon as I have been through Macedonia- -for I am going through Macedonia-

for a door to me hath been opened -- great and effectual -- and withstanders are many.

As for our Brother Apollos, I have often urged him to go to you with the others. He has, however, been very unwilling to do so as yet; but he will go as soon as he finds a good opportunity.