1 Corinthians 15:22-45

22As everyone dies because of Adam, so also everyone will be made alive because of Christ.

23This will happen to each person in his own turn. Christ is the first, then at his coming, those who belong to him ⌞will be made alive⌟.

24Then the end will come. Christ will hand over the kingdom to God the Father as he destroys every ruler, authority, and power.

25Christ must rule until God has put every enemy under his control.

26The last enemy he will destroy is death.

27Clearly, God has put everything under Christ’s authority. When God says that everything has been put under Christ’s authority, this clearly excludes God, since God has put everything under Christ’s authority.

28But when God puts everything under Christ’s authority, the Son will put himself under God’s authority, since God had put everything under the Son’s authority. Then God will be in control of everything.

29However, people are baptized because the dead ⌞will come back to life⌟. What will they do? If the dead can’t come back to life, why do people get baptized as if they can ⌞come back to life⌟?

30Why are we constantly putting ourselves in danger?

31Brothers and sisters, I swear to you on my pride in you which Christ Jesus our Lord has given me: I face death every day.

32If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus, what have I gained according to the way people look at things? If the dead are not brought back to life, “Let’s eat and drink because tomorrow we’re going to die!”

33Don’t let anyone deceive you. Associating with bad people will ruin decent people.

34Come back to the right point of view, and stop sinning. Some people don’t know anything about God. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

35But someone will ask, “How do the dead come back to life? With what kind of body will they come back?”

36You fool! The seed you plant doesn’t come to life unless it dies first.

37What you plant, whether it’s wheat or something else, is only a seed. It doesn’t have the form that the plant will have.

38God gives the plant the form he wants it to have. Each kind of seed grows into its own form.

39Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.

40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. Heavenly bodies don’t all have the same splendor, neither do earthly bodies.

41The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon has another kind of splendor, and the stars have still another kind of splendor. Even one star differs in splendor from another star.

42That is how it will be when the dead come back to life. When the body is planted, it decays. When it comes back to life, it cannot decay.

43When the body is planted, it doesn’t have any splendor and is weak. When it comes back to life, it has splendor and is strong.

44It is planted as a physical body. It comes back to life as a spiritual body. As there is a physical body, so there is also a spiritual body.

45This is what Scripture says: “The first man, Adam, became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.