1 Corinthians 15:20–49

²⁰But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

²¹For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

²²And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

²³But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

²⁴Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all principality and power and virtue.

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

²⁶And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith:

²⁷All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put all things under him.

²⁸And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

²⁹Otherwise, what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? Why are they then baptized for them?

³⁰Why also are we in danger every hour?

³¹I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³²If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

³³Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

³⁴Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

³⁵But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what manner of body shall they come?

³⁶Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

³⁷And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

³⁸But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes.

⁴⁰And there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

⁴¹One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

⁴²So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

⁴³It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness: it shall rise in power.

⁴⁴It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written:

⁴⁵The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

⁴⁶Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

⁴⁸Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.

⁴⁹Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.