Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 15:1 (show verse)
Now let me remind you, brothers, of the essence of the good news which I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you now are standing,
1 Corinthians 15:2 (show verse)
and through which you are to be saved, unless your faith at first was spurious.
1 Corinthians 15:3 (show verse)
For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:4 (show verse)
that He was buried, that on the third day He was raised from the dead, in accordance with the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:5 (show verse)
and that He was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.
1 Corinthians 15:6 (show verse)
After that, at one time He was seen by more than five hundred brothers, most of whom are still living, though some of them have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:7 (show verse)
Then He was seen by James, then by all the apostles, and finally
1 Corinthians 15:8 (show verse)
He was seen by me, too, as though I were born out of time.
1 Corinthians 15:9 (show verse)
For I belong to the lowest rank of the apostles, and am not fit to bear the title apostle, because I once persecuted the church of God.
1 Corinthians 15:10 (show verse)
But by God's unmerited favor I have become what I am, and His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing, for I have toiled more extensively than any of them, and yet it was not I but God's unmerited favor working with me.
1 Corinthians 15:11 (show verse)
But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
1 Corinthians 15:12 (show verse)
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?
1 Corinthians 15:13 (show verse)
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised,
1 Corinthians 15:14 (show verse)
and if Christ was not raised, the message which we preach has nothing in it; there is nothing in our faith either,
1 Corinthians 15:15 (show verse)
and we are found guilty of lying about God, for we have testified that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if indeed the dead are never raised.
1 Corinthians 15:16 (show verse)
For if the dead are never raised, Christ has not been raised;
1 Corinthians 15:17 (show verse)
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is a mere delusion; you are still under the penalty of your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:18 (show verse)
Yes, even those who have fallen asleep, though in union with Christ, have perished.
1 Corinthians 15:19 (show verse)
If for this life only we Christians have set our hopes on Christ, we are the most pitiable people in the world.
1 Corinthians 15:20 (show verse)
But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:21 (show verse)
For since it was through a man that death resulted, it was also through a man that the resurrection of the dead resulted.
1 Corinthians 15:22 (show verse)
For just as all men die by virtue of their descent from Adam, so all such as are in union with Christ will be made to live again.
1 Corinthians 15:23 (show verse)
But each in his proper order; Christ first, then at His coming those who belong to Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:24 (show verse)
After that comes the end, when He will turn the kingdom over to God His Father, when He will put an end to all other government, authority, and power;
1 Corinthians 15:25 (show verse)
for He must continue to be king until He puts all His enemies under His feet.
1 Corinthians 15:26 (show verse)
Death is the last enemy to be stopped,
1 Corinthians 15:27 (show verse)
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.
1 Corinthians 15:28 (show verse)
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.
1 Corinthians 15:29 (show verse)
Otherwise, what do those people mean who submit to being baptized on behalf of their dead? If the dead are never raised at all, why do they submit to being baptized on their behalf?
1 Corinthians 15:30 (show verse)
Why too do we ourselves run such risks every hour?
1 Corinthians 15:31 (show verse)
I protest, by the boasting which I do about you, my brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I myself run the risk of dying every single day!
1 Corinthians 15:32 (show verse)
If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."
1 Corinthians 15:33 (show verse)
Do not be so misled: "Evil companionships corrupt good character."
1 Corinthians 15:34 (show verse)
Sober up, as is right, and stop sinning, for some of you -- to your shame I say so -- are without any true knowledge of God.
1 Corinthians 15:35 (show verse)
But someone will ask, "How can the dead rise? With what kind of body do they come back?"
1 Corinthians 15:36 (show verse)
You foolish man! the seed that you sow never comes to life unless it dies first;
1 Corinthians 15:37 (show verse)
and what you sow does not have the body that it is going to have, but is a naked grain, of wheat (it may be) or something else;
1 Corinthians 15:38 (show verse)
but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body.
1 Corinthians 15:39 (show verse)
Every kind of flesh is different. One kind belongs to men, another to cattle, another to birds, another to fish.
1 Corinthians 15:40 (show verse)
There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.
1 Corinthians 15:41 (show verse)
One kind of splendor belongs to the sun, another to the moon, and another to the stars; yes, one star differs from another in splendor.
1 Corinthians 15:42 (show verse)
It is just like this with the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:43 (show verse)
The body is sown in decay, it is raised without decay; it is sown in humiliation, it is raised in splendor; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength;
1 Corinthians 15:44 (show verse)
it is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body too.
1 Corinthians 15:45 (show verse)
This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:46 (show verse)
But it is not the spiritual that comes first; it is the physical, and then the spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:47 (show verse)
The first man was made of the dust of the earth; the second Man is from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:48 (show verse)
Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven,
1 Corinthians 15:49 (show verse)
and as we have reflected the likeness of him who was made of dust, let us also reflect the likeness of the Man from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:50 (show verse)
But this I tell you, brothers: Our physical bodies cannot take part in the kingdom of God; what is decaying will never take part in what is immortal.
1 Corinthians 15:51 (show verse)
Let me tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:52 (show verse)
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised with bodies not subject to decay, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:53 (show verse)
For this decaying part of us must put on the body that can never decay, and this part once capable of dying must put on the body that can never die.
1 Corinthians 15:54 (show verse)
And when this part once capable of dying puts on the body that can never die, then what the Scripture says will come true, "Death has been swallowed up in victory.
1 Corinthians 15:55 (show verse)
O Death, where is your victory now? O Death, where is your sting?"
1 Corinthians 15:56 (show verse)
Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.
1 Corinthians 15:57 (show verse)
But thank God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:58 (show verse)
So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.