1 Corinthians 15:1–28

The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection

¹Now ^aI make known to you, brethren, the ^bgospel which I preached to you, which also you received, ^cin which also you stand,

²by which also you are saved, ^aif you hold fast ¹the word which I preached to you, ^bunless you believed in vain.

³For ^aI delivered to you ¹as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died ^bfor our sins ^caccording to the Scriptures,

⁴and that He was buried, and that He was ^araised on the third day ^baccording to the Scriptures,

⁵and that ^aHe appeared to ^bCephas, then ^cto the twelve.

⁶After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some ^ahave fallen asleep;

⁷then He appeared to ^1aJames, then to ^ball the apostles;

⁸and last of all, as ¹to one untimely born, ^aHe appeared to me also.

⁹For I am ^athe least of the apostles, ¹and not fit to be called an apostle, because I ^bpersecuted the church of God.

¹⁰But by ^athe grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I ^blabored even more than all of them, yet ^cnot I, but the grace of God with me.

¹¹Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

¹²Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there ^ais no resurrection of the dead?

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

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

¹⁵Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified ¹against God that He ^araised ²Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

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

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

¹⁸Then those also who ^ahave fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

¹⁹If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are ^aof all men most to be pitied.

The Order of Resurrection

²⁰But now Christ ^ahas been raised from the dead, the ^bfirst fruits of those who ^care asleep.

²¹For since ^aby a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

²²For ^aas in Adam all die, so also in ¹Christ all will be made alive.

²³But each in his own order: Christ ^athe first fruits, after that ^bthose who are Christ’s at ^cHis coming,

²⁴then comes the end, when He hands over ^athe kingdom to the ^bGod and Father, when He has abolished ^call rule and all authority and power.

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

²⁶The last enemy that will be ^aabolished is death.

²⁷For ^aHe has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “^bAll things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.

²⁸When ^aall things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that ^bGod may be all in all.