The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen again.

And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.

For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.

And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are yet in your sins.

Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all principality and power and virtue.

For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith:

All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put all things under him.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Otherwise, what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? Why are they then baptized for them?

Why also are we in danger every hour?

I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what manner of body shall they come?

Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes.

And there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness: it shall rise in power.

It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written:

The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual.

The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.

Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality.

And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also.

On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.

And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me.

Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.

And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go.

For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

But I will tarry at Ephesus, until Pentecost.

For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many adversaries.

Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct ye him on his way in peace, that he may come to me. For I look for him with the brethren.

And touching our brother Apollo, I give you to understand that I much entreated him to come unto you with the brethren: and indeed it was not his will at all to come at this time. But he will come when he shall have leisure.

Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

Let all your things be done in charity.

And I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanus, and of Fortunatus, and of Achaicus, that they are the firstfruits of Achaia, and have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints:

That you also be subject to such and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.

And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanus and Fortunatus and Achaicus: because that which was wanting on your part, they have supplied.

For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them, therefore, that are such.

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house, with whom I also lodge.

All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.

If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

My charity be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort:

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.

Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life.

But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us,

You helping withal in prayer for us. That for this gift obtained for us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in our behalf.

For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

For we write no other things to you than what you have read and known. And I hope that you shall know unto the end.

As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:

And to pass by you into Macedonia: and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.

Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, It is, and It is not?

But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But, It is, was in him.

For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory.

Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.

But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.

For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.

And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me: but in part, that I may not burden you all.

To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many.