1 Corinthians 15:12-32

12Now if Messiah is proclaimed—that He has been raised from the dead—how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Messiah has been raised!

14And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is meaningless and your faith also is meaningless.

15Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that He raised up Messiah—whom He did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised.

16For if the dead are not raised, not even Messiah has been raised.

17And if Messiah has not been raised, your faith is futile—you are still in your sins.

18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Messiah have perished.

19If we have hoped in Messiah in this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all people.

20But now Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also has come through a Man.

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

23But each in its own order: Messiah the firstfruits; then, at His coming, those who belong to Messiah;

24then the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all rule and all authority and power.

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

26The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

27For God has “put all things in subjection underneath His feet.” But when the psalmist says that “all” has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include God Himself, who put all things under Messiah.

28Now when all things become subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to the One who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.

29Otherwise, what will they do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they immersed for them?

30And why are we in danger every hour?

31I die every day—yes, as surely as the boast in you, brothers and sisters, which I have in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

32If, for human reasons, I fought with “wild animals” at Ephesus, what good is that to me? If the dead are not raised, “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”