Thematic Bible




1 Corinthians 15:1 (show verse)

Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

1 Corinthians 15:2 (show verse)

the gospel by which you are saved ??provided you adhere to my statement of it ??unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

1 Corinthians 15:3 (show verse)

First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said,

1 Corinthians 15:4 (show verse)

that he was buried, that he rose on the third day as the scriptures had said,

1 Corinthians 15:5 (show verse)

and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve;

1 Corinthians 15:6 (show verse)

after that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers all at once, the majority of whom survive to this day, though some have died;

1 Corinthians 15:7 (show verse)

after that, he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

1 Corinthians 15:8 (show verse)

and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle.

1 Corinthians 15:9 (show verse)

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 15:10 (show verse)

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

1 Corinthians 15:11 (show verse)

At any rate, whether I or they have done most, such is what we preach, such is what you believed.

1 Corinthians 15:12 (show verse)

Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?

1 Corinthians 15:13 (show verse)

If 'there is no such thing as a resurrection from the dead,' then even Christ did not rise;

1 Corinthians 15:14 (show verse)

and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.

1 Corinthians 15:15 (show verse)

Besides, we are detected bearing false witness to God by affirming of him that he raised Christ ??whom he did not raise, if after all dead men never rise.

1 Corinthians 15:16 (show verse)

For if dead men never rise, Christ did not rise either;

1 Corinthians 15:17 (show verse)

and if Christ did not rise, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15:18 (show verse)

More than that: those who have slept the sleep of death in Christ have perished after all.

1 Corinthians 15:19 (show verse)

Ah, if in this life we have nothing but a mere hope in Christ, we are of all men to be pitied most!

1 Corinthians 15:20 (show verse)

But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

1 Corinthians 15:21 (show verse)

For since death came by man, by man came also resurrection from the dead;

1 Corinthians 15:22 (show verse)

as all die in Adam, so shall all be made alive in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:23 (show verse)

But each in his own division: ??Christ the first to be reaped; after that, all who belong to Christ, at his arrival.

1 Corinthians 15:24 (show verse)

Then comes the end, when he hands over his royal power to God the Father, after putting down all other rulers, all other authorities and powers.

1 Corinthians 15:25 (show verse)

For he must reign until all his foes are put under his feet.

1 Corinthians 15:26 (show verse)

(Death is the last foe to be put down.)

1 Corinthians 15:27 (show verse)

For God has put everything under his feet. When it is said that everything has been put under him, plainly that excludes Him who put everything under him;

1 Corinthians 15:28 (show verse)

and when everything is put under him, then the Son himself will be put under Him who put everything under him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

1 Corinthians 15:29 (show verse)

Otherwise, if there is no such thing as a resurrection, what is the meaning of people getting baptized on behalf of their dead? If dead men do not rise at all, why do people get baptized on their behalf?

1 Corinthians 15:30 (show verse)

Yes, and why am I myself in danger every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:31 (show verse)

(Not a day but I am at death's door! I swear it by my pride in you, brothers, through Christ Jesus our Lord.)

1 Corinthians 15:32 (show verse)

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

1 Corinthians 15:33 (show verse)

Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'

1 Corinthians 15:34 (show verse)

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.

1 Corinthians 15:35 (show verse)

But, someone will ask, 'how do the dead rise? What kind of body have they when they come?'

1 Corinthians 15:36 (show verse)

Foolish man! What you sow never comes to life unless it dies.

1 Corinthians 15:37 (show verse)

And what you sow is not the body that is to be; it is a mere grain of wheat, for example, or some other seed.

1 Corinthians 15:38 (show verse)

God gives it a body as he pleases, gives each kind of seed a body of its own.

1 Corinthians 15:39 (show verse)

Flesh is not all the same; there is human flesh, there is flesh of beasts, flesh of birds, and flesh of fish.

1 Corinthians 15:40 (show verse)

There are heavenly bodies and also earthly bodies, but the splendour of the heavenly is one thing and the splendour of the earthly is another.

1 Corinthians 15:41 (show verse)

There is a splendour of the sun and a splendour of the moon and a splendour of the stars ??for one star differs from another in splendour.

1 Corinthians 15:42 (show verse)

So with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is mortal, what rises is immortal;

1 Corinthians 15:43 (show verse)

sown inglorious, it rises in glory; sown in weakness, it rises in power;

1 Corinthians 15:44 (show verse)

sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:45 (show verse)

Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

1 Corinthians 15:46 (show verse)

but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15:47 (show verse)

Man the first is from the earth, material; Man the second is from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:48 (show verse)

As Man the material is, so are the material; as Man the heavenly is, so are the heavenly.

1 Corinthians 15:49 (show verse)

Thus, as we have borne the likeness of material Man, so we are to bear the likeness of the heavenly Man.

1 Corinthians 15:50 (show verse)

I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable.

1 Corinthians 15:51 (show verse)

Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed ??52 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:52 (show verse)

1 Corinthians 15:53 (show verse)

For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality;

1 Corinthians 15:54 (show verse)

and when this mortal body has been invested with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will be realized, Death is swallowed up in victory.

1 Corinthians 15:55 (show verse)

O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?

1 Corinthians 15:56 (show verse)

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1 Corinthians 15:57 (show verse)

The victory is ours, thank God! He makes it ours by our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:58 (show verse)

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.