1 Corinthians 15:22-49

22For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.

23But each in his own rank: [the] first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.

24Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him [who is] 1God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.

25For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet.

26[The] last enemy [that] is annulled [is] death.

27For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, [it is] evident that [it is] except him who put all things in subjection to him.

28But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that 2God may be all in all.)

29Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if [those that are] dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

30Why do we also endanger ourselves every hour?

31Daily I die, by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

32If, [to speak] after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if [those that are] dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

34Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of 3God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.

35But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

36Fool; what thou sowest is not quickened unless it die.

37And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the rest:

38and 4God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

39Every flesh [is] not the same flesh, but one [is] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another [flesh] of birds, and another of fishes.

40And [there are] heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the earthly:

41one [the] sun's glory, and another [the] moon's glory, and another [the] stars' glory; for star differs from star in glory.

42Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.

43It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

44It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [one].

45Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.

46But that which is spiritual [was] not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

47the first man out of [the] earth, made of dust; the second man, out of heaven.

48Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly [one], such also the heavenly [ones].

49And as we have borne the image of the [one] made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [one].