1 Corinthians 15

Resurrection Essential to the Gospel

1Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand # 15:1 Pr 24:16 2and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you — unless you believed in vain. # 15:2 Gl 4:11; Heb 6:8 3For I passed on to you # 15:3 Jd 3 as most important what I also received: that Christ died # 15:3 1Co 8:11 for our sins according to the Scriptures, # 15:3 Mt 26:54; 1Pt 1:20 4that he was buried, # 15:4 Mt 27:59–60; Mk 15:46; Lk 23:53; Jn 19:41–42 that he was raised on the third day # 15:4 1Th 4:14 according to the Scriptures, # 15:4 Ps 16:10; Is 53:10; Hs 6:2; Mt 12:40; Jn 2:22; Ac 2:25–32; 13:33–35; 26:22–23 5and that he appeared to Cephas, # 15:5 Lk 24:34 then to the Twelve. # 15:5 Mk 16:14; Lk 24:36; Jn 20:19,26; Ac 10:41 6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; # 15:6 Mt 28:10–20 most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, # 15:7 Jms 1:1 then to all the apostles. # 15:7 Ac 1:3–11 8Last of all, as to one born at the wrong time, # 15:8 Or one whose birth was unusual,# 15:8 1Tm 1:13–16 he also appeared to me. # 15:8 Ac 9:1–8

9For I am the least of the apostles, # 15:9 Eph 3:8; 1Tm 1:16–17 not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted # 15:9 Php 3:6 the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. # 15:10 2Co 3:5; Php 2:13; Col 1:29 11Whether, then, it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

Resurrection Essential to the Faith

12Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, # 15:12 Mt 17:9 how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”? # 15:12 Mt 22:23; Mk 12:18; Lk 20:27; Ac 23:8; 2Tm 2:18 13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; 14and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith. # 15:14 Or proclamation is useless, and your faith also is useless, or proclamation is empty, and your faith also is empty 15Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses # 15:15 Mt 26:60 about God, because we have testified # 15:15 Jn 15:26 wrongly about God that he raised up Christ — whom he did not raise up, 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; you are still in your sins. 18Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ # 15:18 1Th 4:16; 1Pt 5:14 have also perished. 19If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

Christ’s Resurrection Guarantees Ours

20But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits # 15:20 Ex 23:19; Lv 2:12; Rm 8:23; Col 1:18 of those who have fallen asleep. 21For since death # 15:21 Mt 10:21; Jn 8:51; Php 3:10 came through a man, # 15:21 Gn 3:1–7; Rm 5:12–14 the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. # 15:21 Mt 28:5–6; Mk 16:6; Lk 24:5–8,34; Jn 11:25; 20:9,15–18 22For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. # 15:22 Rm 14:9

23But each in his own order: # 15:23 1Th 4:17 Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ. 24Then comes the end, # 15:24 Mt 24:6; Mk 13:7 when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, # 15:24 Mt 5:16; 11:27; Lk 11:13; Jn 8:42; Eph 5:20 when he abolishes all rule and all authority and power. # 15:24 Ac 8:10; Eph 1:21; 1Pt 3:22 25For he must reign # 15:25 Lk 1:33; Rv 11:15 until he puts all his enemies under his feet. # 15:25 Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44; Eph 1:22 26The last enemy to be abolished is death. # 15:26 2Co 5:4 27For God has put everything under his feet. # 15:27 Ps 8:6; 110:1,# 15:27 Ps 8:6; 110:1 Now when it says “everything” is put under him, it is obvious that he who puts everything under him is the exception. 28When everything is subject to Christ, then the Son # 15:28 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 himself will also be subject to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all. # 15:28 Ps 104:24; Eph 1:23

Resurrection Supported by Christian Experience

29Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? # 15:29 Or baptized on account of the dead If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them? # 15:29 Other mss read for the dead 30Why are we in danger every hour? 31I face death every day, # 15:31 Rm 8:36 as surely as I may boast about you, brothers and sisters, in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus # 15:32 Eph 1:1 as a mere man, what good did that do me? # 15:32 1Th 2:19 If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. # 15:32 Is 22:13,# 15:32 Is 22:13 33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” 34Come to your senses # 15:34 Lit Sober up,# 15:34 Ti 2:12 and stop sinning; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame. # 15:34 1Co 4:14

The Nature of the Resurrection Body

35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come? ” 36You fool! What you sow does not come to life # 15:36 Jn 12:24 unless it dies. 37And as for what you sow — you are not sowing the body that will be, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain. 38But God gives it a body as he wants, # 15:38 Ps 143:10; Pr 16:9; Jn 5:30; Gl 1:4; Eph 1:9; 1Jn 2:17 and to each of the seeds its own body. 39Not all flesh # 15:39 Php 3:3 is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor # 15:40 Lk 9:31–32; Ac 22:11 of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones. 41There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; in fact, one star differs from another star in splendor. 42So it is with the resurrection of the dead: Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption; # 15:42 Rm 2:7; Eph 6:24; 2Tm 1:10 43sown in dishonor, # 15:43 2Co 6:8 raised in glory; # 15:43 1Pt 5:4 sown in weakness, raised in power; # 15:43 Mk 5:30; Lk 1:35; 6:19; Ac 19:11; 2Co 13:4; Rv 11:17 44sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So it is written, The first man Adam became a living being; # 15:45 Gn 2:7,# 15:45 Gn 2:7 the last Adam # 15:45 Rm 8:2 became a life-giving spirit. 46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.

47The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; # 15:47 Gn 2:7; 3:19; Ps 90:3 the second man is # 15:47 Other mss add the Lord from heaven. 48Like the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; like the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. # 15:48 Php 3:20–21 49And just as we have borne the image # 15:49 Gn 1:27 of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven. # 15:49 1Jn 3:2

Victorious Resurrection

50What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: Flesh # 15:50 Php 3:3 and blood # 15:50 Mt 16:17 cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption. 51Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. # 15:52 Mt 24:31; 1Pt 1:5 For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53For this corruptible body must be clothed # 15:53 Pr 31:25 with incorruptibility, # 15:53 1Pt 1:18 and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality. 54When this corruptible body is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place:

Death has been swallowed up # 15:54 Mt 23:24 in victory. # 15:54 Is 25:8,# 15:54 Is 25:8

55 Where, death, is your victory?

Where, death, is your sting? # 15:55 Hs 13:14,# 15:55 Hs 13:14

56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin # 15:56 Rm 4:15 is the law. # 15:56 Gl 5:4 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory # 15:57 1Jn 5:5 through our Lord Jesus Christ!

58Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, # 15:58 Mk 14:6; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14–26 because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

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1 Corinthians 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 2:1; 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 Yn 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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