and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

But, even if you marry, you did not sin; and, if a virgin marry, she did not sin. Yet such will have tribulation in the flesh; and I am sparing you.

If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;

Even so did the Lord ordain, that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

But, as it is, God did set the members, each one of them in the body, even as He willed.

Or from you did the word of God go forth? Or did it come to you alone?

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now if Christ is preached, that He hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead.

But, if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised;

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in respect to God that He raised up the Christ, Whom He raised not, if so be that the dead are not raised.

For, if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised;

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the First fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

For since through man came death, through Man came also the resurrection of the dead.

Else what will those do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they even immersed for them?

If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."

But some one will say, "How are the dead raised? and with what kind of body do they come?"

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.