1 Corinthians 15 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection

1Now brothers and sisters, let me remind you of the good news which I preached to you, which you welcomed and accepted and on which you stand.

2By this faith you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

3For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

4and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

5and that He appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the Twelve.

6After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, the majority of whom are still alive, but some have fallen asleep.

7Then He was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

8and last of all, as to one untimely (prematurely, traumatically) born, He appeared to me also.

9For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I fiercely oppressed and violently persecuted the church of God.

10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not without effect. In fact, I worked harder than all of the apostles, though it was not I, but the grace of God with me.

11So whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed and trusted in and relied on with confidence.

12Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how is it that some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

14and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

15We are even discovered to be false witnesses God, because we testified concerning Him that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised, either;

17and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless and powerless; you are still in your sins.

18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

19If we who are in Christ have hoped only in this life, then we are of all people most miserable and to be pitied.

The Order of Resurrection

20But now Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

21For since by a man that death came, it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come.

22For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s at His coming.

24After that comes the end (completion), when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after He has made inoperative and abolished every ruler and every authority and power.

25For Christ must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

26The last enemy to be abolished and put to an end is death.

27For He (the Father) has put all things in subjection under His (Christ’s) feet. But when He says, “All things have been put in subjection,” it is clear that He (the Father) who put all things in subjection to Him (Christ) is excepted.

28However, when all things are subjected to Him (Christ), then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One (the Father) who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.

29Otherwise, what will those do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people even baptized for them?

30[For that matter] why are we in danger every hour?

31I assure you, believers, by the pride which I have in you in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

32What good has it done me if, from a human point of view, I fought with wild animals at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

34Be sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

35But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body will they come?”

36You fool! Every time you plant seed you sow something that does not come to life unless it first dies.

37The seed you sow is not the body (the plant) which it is going to become, but it is a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other grain.

38But God gives it a body just as He planned, and to each kind of seed a body of its own.

39All flesh is not the same. There is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

40There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory and beauty of the heavenly is one kind, and the glory of the earthly is another.

41There is a glory and beauty of the sun, another glory of the moon, and yet another glory of the stars; and one star differs from another in glory and brilliance.

42So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable and mortal, it is raised imperishable and immortal.

43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength;

44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. As surely as there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

45So it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit.

46However, the spiritual is not first, but the physical; then the spiritual.

47The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second Man is from heaven.

48As is the earthly man, so are those who are of earth; and as is the heavenly, so are those who are of heaven.

49Just as we have borne the image of the earthly, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

The Mystery of Resurrection

50Now I say this, believers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit nor be part of the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (mortal) inherit the imperishable (immortal).

51Listen very carefully, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

53For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54And when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the Scripture will be fulfilled that says, “Death is swallowed up in victory (vanquished forever).

55O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

57but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, being continually aware that your labor in the Lord is not futile nor wasted.