1 Corinthians 15:20–49

²⁰And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead—the first-fruits of those sleeping he became, ²¹for since through man is the death, also through man is a rising again of the dead, ²²for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive, ²³and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ’s, in his presence, ²⁴then—the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power— ²⁵for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet— ²⁶the last enemy is done away—death; ²⁷for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him, ²⁸and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all. ²⁹Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead? ³⁰why also do we stand in peril every hour? ³¹Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: ³²if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die! ³³Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners; ³⁴awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.

³⁵But some one will say, ‘How do the dead rise? ³⁶unwise! thou—what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die; ³⁷and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others, ³⁸and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body. ³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds; ⁴⁰and there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly; ⁴¹one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory. ⁴²So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; 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; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body; ⁴⁵so also it hath been written, ‘The first man Adam became a living creature,’ the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit, ⁴⁶but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual. ⁴⁷The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord out of heaven; ⁴⁸as is the earthy, such are also the earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are also the heavenly; ⁴⁹and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.