1 Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed to you, which you have also received, in which you also stand,
2 by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.
3 For I passed on to you
4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised up on the third day according to the scriptures,
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,
6 then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the majority of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.
7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
8 and last of all, as it were to one born at the wrong time, he appeared also to me.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 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.
11 Therefore whether I or those, in this way we preached, and in this way you believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that
13 But if
14 But if Christ has not been raised, then both our preaching
15 And also we are found
16 For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised
17 But if Christ has not been raised, your faith
18 And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since through a man
22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those
24 then the end, when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power.
25 For it is necessary for him to reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy to be abolished
27 For “he subjected all
28 But whenever all
29 Otherwise, why do they do
30 And why are we in danger every hour?
31 I die every day—yes indeed, by my boasting in you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord!
32 If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit
33 Do not be deceived! “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
34 Sober up correctly and
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?”
36 Foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37 And what you sow
38 But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and to each one of the seeds its own body.
39 Not all flesh
40 and heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the glory of the heavenly
42 Thus also
43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If
45 Thus also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”;
46 But the spiritual
47 The first man
48 As the one
49 And just as we have borne the image of the
50 But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruptibility.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For it is necessary
54 But whenever this perishable
55 Where, O death,
56 Now the sting of death
57 But thanks
58 So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,