1 Corinthians 15
15
1Now, Achim b'Moshiach, I draw your attention to the Besuras HaGeulah which I proclaimed to you, which also you received, in which also you stand firm,#15:1 Isa 40:9
2Through which also you are brought to Yeshu'at Eloheinu, provided you hold fast to the dvar torah which I proclaimed to you, unless you received it in vain.#15:2 cf. 1C 15:10-12,14
3For I transmitted and handed on to you as authoritative torah, rishon (first), that which was also transmitted and handed on to me as authoritative torah:#15:3 Ga 1:18 that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach died on behalf of avoneinu#15:3 Isa 1:4 (our averos, iniquities, gross wickedness, depravities) according to the Kitvei Hakodesh,#15:3 Isa 53:8-9; Dan 9:26
4And that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was buried in a kever#15:4 Isa 53:9 (grave, burial place), and that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was raised in a Techiyah from the mesim on YOM HASHLISHI (Gn 1:11-13#15:4 T.N. Chag HaBikkurim Lv 23:10-11, see 1C 15:20)#15:4 Ex 19:11,15-16; Josh 1:11; Num 19:11-13; Jon 1:17; Hos 6:2; 2Kgs 20:5,8; Ezra 6:15 according to the Kitvei Hakodesh,#15:4 Ps 16:10
5And that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by Kefa, then by the Sheneym Asar,
6Afterward Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by over five hundred Achim b'Moshiach at one time, of whom most remain alive until now, though some sleep the sleep of the mesim.
7Afterward, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by Ya'akov,#15:7 Ga 1:19, also see Mt 13:55 then by all the Shlichim.
8And, last of all, even as if to one born not normally,#15:8 like the rest Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was seen by me also.#15:8 cf. 1C 9:1
9For I am the least of Moshiachʼs Shlichim, not qualified to be called a Shliach, because I brought redifah (persecution) upon the Kehillah of Hashem.
10But by the Chen v'Chesed Hashem, I am what I am. And the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to me was not in vain, but more abundantly than all the Moshiachʼs Shlichim I labored, yet it was not I, but the Chen v'Chesed Hashem with me.
11Whether it was I or those others, so we preached as Moshiachʼs maggidim, and so you had emunah and became Moshiachʼs ma'aminim.
12And if Moshiach is being preached that from the Mesim (Dead ones) he has had his Techiyah (Resurrection), how is it that some among you say that there is no Techiyas HaMesim?
13And if there is no Techiyas HaMesim, neither then has Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach been raised.
14And if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has not been raised, then our darshenen to you was in vain and also in vain is your emunah (faith).
15Moreover, we are found also to be edei sheker (false witnesses)#15:15 Ex 20:16; Dt 19:16-21 misrepresenting Hashem Himself, because we gave solemn edut#15:15 1C 1:6 (testimony) as in the presence of G-d that Hashem raised Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach — whom, of course, He did not raise if, as you say, the Mesim are not bemetzius (in fact) raised.
16For if the Mesim (Dead persons) have not Techiyah, neither has Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had a Techiyah;
17And if Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has not already had his Techiyah from the Mesim, your emunah is futile, you are still in your averos (sins),
18And even the ones who sleep the sleep of the Mesim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach have perished.
19Listen, if for the Olam Hazeh only we have tikvateinu in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, we are to be pitied more than kol Bnei Adam.
20But in fact Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has had His Techiyah! Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is the Bikkurim#15:20 Gn 1:11-13; Num 28:26; Lv 23:10-11 (Firstfruits), the Firstfruits of the ones having fallen asleep [in Moshiach].
21For als (since) through an Adam (Man) came mavet,#15:21 Gn 2:17 also through an Adam (Man, [Moshiach]) came the Techiyas HaMesim.
22For as in Adam all die,#15:22 Gn 3:19 so also in Moshiach all will be made alive.
23But each one in his own order: the Bikkurim, Moshiach; afterward, the ones of Moshiach at the Bias HaMoshiach;
24Then HaKetz when Moshiach gives over the Malchut Hashem to G-d, even Elohim Avinu,#15:24 Dan 2:44; 7:13-14,27 after He has abolished all Misrah and Shilton and Gevurah.
25For it is necessary for Moshiach to reign until Hashem puts all His OYVIM (enemies) under His RAGLAYIM#15:25 Ps 110:1 (feet).#15:25 Isa 9:7; 52:7
26The last Oyev (Enemy) to be abolished is Mavet.
27For KOL HASHEM put TACHAT RAGLAV (All things He subjected under His feet),#15:27 Ps 8:6 [7] but when He says that KOL (all things) have been subjected, it is peshat (plain, literal) that this does not include the One#15:27 Hashem who put all things in subjection under Moshiach.
28But, when all things are subjected to Hashem, then also the Zun fun der Oybershter#15:28 Moshiach himself will be subjected to the One (Hashem) having subjected all things under him (Moshiach), that in all things G-d may be all.#15:28 i.e., preeminent
29Otherwise, what will they do, the ones being given tevilah on behalf of the dead? If the Mesim really are not raised, why indeed are they given tevilah on behalf of the Mesim?
30Why also are we putting ourselves at risk and in danger every hour?
31Daily I die and that is as true a fact, Achim b'Moshiach, as it is that I glory over you in Moshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.
32If it were a mere humanistic matter, my fighting, so to speak, with wild beasts in Ephesus,#15:32 Ac 19; 2C 1:3-10 what do I gain? If there is no Techiyas HaMesim, “Let us eat and drink, KI MACHAR NAMUT (For tomorrow we die).”#15:32 Isa 22:13; 56:12
33Do not fall under a delusion. “Bad chavrusashaft (association, influence or hashpa'ah) corrupts good midos.”
34Wake up and come to your senses. Start walking in the derech tzaddikim.#15:34 Ps 1:6 Stop committing averos. Some among you have no saving da'as of Hashem. I say this to your bushah (shame).
35But someone will question, “How does this Techiyas HaMesim come about? And in the Techiyas HaMesim, with what kind of body will they come?”#15:35 Ezek 37:3
36Yold, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies!
37And what is it you sow? Not the body that is to be, but something else: a bare zera (seed), efsher (perhaps) of wheat or some other grain.
38However, Hashem chooses#15:38 another body to give to the#15:38 “dead” and buried seed, and to each kind of zera is given by Hashem its own body.#15:38 Gn 1:11-13; 47:18-19
39Now basar is not all the same: Bnei Adam have one kind of basar; animals, another; birds, another; fish, another;
40and there are gufot baShomayim (heavenly bodies), and gufot ba'aretz (earthly bodies), but the kavod of the heavenly is of one kind, and the kavod of the earthly of another kind.
41There is one kavod (glory) of the shemesh (sun), and another kavod (glory) of the levanah (moon), and another kavod (glory) of the kochavim (stars), for in kavod (glory), kochav differs from kochav.#15:41 Ps 19:4-6; 8:1,3
42So also is the Techiyas HaMesim. That which is sown is of one kind, perishable; that which is raised up is of another kind, imperishable.#15:42 Dan 12:3
43What is sown without kavod is raised in kavod. What is sown in weakness is raised in ko'ach (power).
44What is sown a natural body, is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
45So, also, it has been written, VAY'HI HAADAM L'NEFESH CHAYYAH (And the [first] Man became a living soul);#15:45 Gn 2:7 but the Adam haacharon (last Adam) became a Ruach mechayyeh.#15:45 Jn 5:26
46But the spiritual body is not harishon, but the natural; then afterward the spiritual.
47The Adam Harishon is AFAR MIN HA'ADAMAH (dust from the earth, ground),#15:47 Gn 2:7 out of ha'aretz. The Adam HaSheini (the second Adam) is out of Shomayim.#15:47 Dan 7:13; Ps 90:3
48As was the Adam of dust, such also are those of the dust; as was the Adam of Shomayim, such also are those who are of Shomayim.
49And just as we have borne the demut of the Adam MIN AFAR HA'ADAMAH (from the dust of the earth),#15:49 Gn 2:7 so we will bear also the likeness of the Heavenly Adam (Man).#15:49 Gn 5:3
50Now this I say, Achim b'Moshiach, that basar vadahm cannot inherit the Malchut Hashem, neither can the perishable inherit the imperishable.#15:50 Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-26
51Hinei! I speak a sod (mystery) to you: we will not all sleep the sleep of the Mesim, but we will all be changed.
52In a rega (moment), in the wink of an eye, at the last shofar blast. For the shofar will sound, the Mesim (dead ones) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53For it is necessary for this perishable nature to put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature to put on the immortal.
54But when this perishable nature puts on the imperishable, and this mortal, the immortal, then the dvar hanevu'ah will come to pass that stands written, “He will swallow up death forever”#15:54 Isa 25:8 in victory.
55EHI DEVARECHA MAVET EHI KATAVECHA SHEOL? (Where are your plagues, O Death? Where is your destruction, O Sheol?)#15:55 Hos 13:14
56Now the sting of death is chet (sin) and the ko'ach (power) of chet (sin) is chukkat haTorah.#15:56 See Dt 27:26; Ga 3:1-13; Ro 7:7-13
57But Baruch Hashem, Who is giving us the Netzach (Victory) through Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
58So then, Chaverim and Achim b'Moshiach of mine, be steadfast, immovable, abounding always in the avodas kodesh of Adoneinu, have da'as that your po'al (work) is not in vain in Hashem.#15:58 2Chr 15:7; Isa 65:23
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THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE
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1 Corinthians 15
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The Resurrection of Christ
1And now I want to remind you, my brothers and sisters, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received, and on which your faith stands firm. 2That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it — unless it was for nothing that you believed.
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Is 53.5–12
I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures; 4#Ps 16.8–10; Mt 12.40; Acts 2.24–32that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures; 5#Mt 28.16–17; Mk 16.14; Lk 24.34, 36; Jn 20.19that he appeared to Peter and then to all twelve apostles. 6Then he appeared to more than 500 of his followers at once, most of whom are still alive, although some have died. 7Then he appeared to James, and afterwards to all the apostles.
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Acts 9.3–6
Last of all he appeared also to me — even though I am like someone whose birth was abnormal.#15.8 whose birth was abnormal; or who was born at the wrong time. 9#Acts 8.3For I am the least of all the apostles — I do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted God's church. 10But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me. 11So then, whether it came from me or from them, this is what we all preach, and this is what you believe.
Our Resurrection
12Now, since our message is that Christ has been raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life? 13If that is true, it means that Christ was not raised; 14and if Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe. 15More than that, we are shown to be lying about God, because we said that he raised Christ from death — but if it is true that the dead are not raised to life, then he did not raise Christ. 16For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. 17And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins. 18It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost. 19If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more,#15.19 If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more; or If all we have in this life is our hope in Christ. then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.
20But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised. 21For just as death came by means of a man, in the same way the rising from death comes by means of a man. 22For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ. 23But each one will be raised in the right order: Christ, first of all; then, at the time of his coming, those who belong to him. 24Then the end will come; Christ will overcome all spiritual rulers, authorities, and powers, and will hand over the Kingdom to God the Father. 25#Ps 110.1For Christ must rule until God defeats all enemies and puts them under his feet. 26The last enemy to be defeated will be death. 27#Ps 8.6For the scripture says, “God put all things under his feet.” It is clear, of course, that the words “all things” do not include God himself, who puts all things under Christ. 28But when all things have been placed under Christ's rule, then he himself, the Son, will place himself under God, who placed all things under him; and God will rule completely over all.
29Now, what about those people who are baptized for the dead? What do they hope to accomplish? If it is true, as some claim, that the dead are not raised to life, why are those people being baptized for the dead? 30And as for us — why would we run the risk of danger every hour? 31My brothers and sisters, I face death every day! The pride I have in you, in our life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord, makes me declare this. 32#Is 22.13If I have, as it were, fought “wild beasts” here in Ephesus simply from human motives, what have I gained? But if the dead are not raised to life, then, as the saying goes, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
33Do not be fooled. “Bad companions ruin good character.” 34Come back to your right senses and stop your sinful ways. I declare to your shame that some of you do not know God.
The Resurrection Body
35Someone will ask, “How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?” 36You fool! When you sow a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies. 37And what you sow is a bare seed, perhaps a grain of wheat or some other grain, not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up. 38God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body.
39And the flesh of living beings is not all the same kind of flesh; human beings have one kind of flesh, animals another, birds another, and fish another.
40And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies. 41The sun has its own beauty, the moon another beauty, and the stars a different beauty; and even among stars there are different kinds of beauty.
42This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal. 43When buried, it is ugly and weak; when raised, it will be beautiful and strong. 44When buried, it is a physical body; when raised, it will be a spiritual body. There is, of course, a physical body, so there has to be a spiritual body. 45#Gen 2.7For the scripture says, “The first man, Adam, was created a living being”; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit. 46It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. 47The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven. 48Those who belong to the earth are like the one who was made of earth; those who are of heaven are like the one who came from heaven. 49Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear#15.49 we will wear; some manuscripts have let us wear. the likeness of the Man from heaven.
50What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God's Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.
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1 Thes 4.15–17
Listen to this secret truth: we shall not all die, but when the last trumpet sounds, we shall all be changed in an instant, as quickly as the blinking of an eye. For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed. 53For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die. 54#Is 25.8So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: “Death is destroyed; victory is complete!”
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Hos 13.14 (LXX) “Where, Death, is your victory?
Where, Death, is your power to hurt?”
56Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. 57But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
58So then, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.
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