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1 Now, brothers, I make known to you the gospel which I evangelized(=preached) you, which you also received, in which you stand(# perfect as present),
2 through which also you are saved, if you hold firmly to any word I evangelized(=preached) (to) you – unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered (to) you in the first things(=first of all) which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,
4 and that he was buried, and that he has been raised (on) the third day according to the Scripture,
5 and that he was seen (by) Cephas, then (by) the twelve.
6 Then he was seen (by) over five hundred brothers at one time, of whom the greater (number) remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.
7 Then he was seen (by) James, then (by) all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen (by) me also, as (by) one untimely born.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But (by the) grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not empty(=in vain). But I labored(=worked harder) more abundantly (than) they all, (though it was) not I, but the grace of God (that was) with me.
11 Therefore, whether (it was) I or those(=they), so we proclaim and so you believed.
12 And if Christ is proclaimed that he has been raised from (the) dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of (the) dead?
13 And if there is no resurrection of (the) dead, then Christ has not been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation (is) empty(=in vain), and your faith (is) empty(=in vain).
15 And we are also found (to be) false witnesses of God, because we testified [against] of God that He raised [the] Christ, whom He did not raised if in fact (the) dead are not raised.
16 For if (the) dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile (and) you are still in your sins.
18 Then even the ones having been fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we are having hoped(=have hoped)1 in Christ, we are of all men (the) most pitiable.
20 But now Christ has been raised from (the) dead, first fruits of the ones having fallen asleep.
21 For since through a man (came) death, and through a man (came) a resurrection of (the) dead.
22 For as in [the] Adam all die, so in [the] Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in the(=his) own order: Christ (the) first fruits, then the ones of Christ(=who belong to Christ) at his coming,
24 then (comes) the end, when he delivers the kingdom to [the] God [and] (the) Father, when he [might] abolishes all rule and all authority and power.
25 For it is necessary (for) him to reign(=he must reign) until he might put(=has put) all the(=his) enemies under his feet.
26 (The) last enemy, the death, is destroyed.
27 For he has put in subjection all things under his feet. And when he [might] says, [that] “All things has been put in subjection,” (it is) clear that (this is) excluding(=this excludes from) the One having put all things in subjection to(=under) him.
28 And when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One having subjected all things to him, that [the] God may be all in all.
29 Otherwise, what will the ones being baptized for the dead do? If (the) dead are not raised at all, why are they indeed baptized for them?
30 Why do we also endanger (ourselves) every hour?
31 I die daily. (I affirm it) by (the) boasting (in) you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 If, according to man(=with human hope), I fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what (is) the advantage to me? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and let us drink, for tomorrow we die!”
33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good habits.”
34 Become sober righteously(=Come to your right mind), and do not sin; for some have ignorance(=no knowledge) of God. I speak (this) to your shame.
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?”
36 (How) foolish! What you sow is not made alive unless it [might] dies.
37 And what you sow, you do not sow the body going to become(=that will be), but a bare seed – it could be of wheat or some other (grain).
38 And God gives to it a body as he willed, and to each of the seeds (its) own body.
39 All flesh (is) not the same flesh, but (there is) one (flesh) of men, and another flesh of animals, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.
40 And (there are) heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly (bodies) (is) indeed one, and the (glory) of the earthly (bodies) (is) another.
41 (There is) one glory of (the) sun, and another glory of (the) moon, and another glory of (the) stars; for (one) star differs (from) (another) star in glory.
42 So also (is) the resurrection of the dead. It(=The body) is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual (body).
45 And so it has been written, “The first man, Adam, became [to] a living being.” The last Adam (became) [to] a life-giving spirit.
46 But the spiritual is not first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
47 The first man (was) from (the) earth, (made) of dust. The second men (is) from heaven.
48 As (was) the earthly (man), so also (are) the earthly (men). And as (was) heavenly (One), so also (are) the heavenly (men).
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthly (man), we will also bear the image of the heavenly (One).
50 And I say this, brothers, “[that] Flesh and blood are not able to inherit (the) kingdom of God, nor does the corruption(=the perishable) inherit the incorruption(=the imperishable).
51 Behold, I say (to) you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
52 in a moment, in (the) twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet. For (the trumpet) will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible(=imperishable), and we will be changed.
53 For this corruptible(=perishable body) must [to] put on incorruption(=imperishability), and this mortal (body must) [to] put on immortality.
54 And when this corruptible(=perishable body) [might] puts on incorruption(=imperishability), and this mortal (body) [might] puts on immortality, then the word having been written will come to pass: “[The] Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, (is) the(=your) victory? Where, O death, (is) the(=your) sting?”
56 And the sting of death (is) [the] sin. And the power of sin (is) the law.
57 But thanks (be) to [the] God giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty(=in vain) in (the) Lord.
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