# 1 Corinthians 15

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Now I am making known to you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I proclaimed to you—the gospel you received and in which you now stand,
2. and through it you are being saved, provided you keep a firm grip on the message in the form I proclaimed it to you—unless your believing was for nothing.
3. For first and foremost I handed on to you what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in keeping with the Scriptures,
4. that he was buried, and that he has been raised on the third day in keeping with the Scriptures,
5. and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.
6. Next he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters all at once. Most of them are still with us, though some have fallen asleep.
7. Then he appeared to James, and after that to all the apostles.
8. Last of all, he appeared to me too, as if to a child born before its time.
9. For I am the lowest of the apostles, not fit to bear the name apostle, since I persecuted God’s church.
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and the grace he showed me did not go to waste. No, I have labored more than all of them—though not I, but God’s grace that was with me.
11. So whether it was I or they, this is the message we proclaim and the message you came to believe.
12. Now if what is proclaimed about Christ is that he has been raised from the dead, how can some among you claim there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is empty too.
15. What is more, we turn out to be false witnesses about God, since we have given testimony against God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise, if the dead really are not raised.
16. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
17. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you remain in your sins.
18. It would follow, too, that those who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.
19. If our hope in Christ is only for this life, then we deserve more pity than anyone else.
20. But now Christ really has been raised from the dead, as the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21. For since it was through a human being that death came, it is also through a human being that the resurrection of the dead comes.
22. For just as all die in Adam, so too all will be made alive in Christ.
23. But each one in their proper turn: Christ as the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who are Christ’s.
24. After that comes the end, when he gives the kingdom over to God the Father, when he has abolished every ruler, every authority, and every power.
25. For he has to reign until he has placed all his enemies under his feet.
26. Death is the last enemy to be abolished.
27. For “he has put all things in subjection under his feet.” Now when it says that “all things” have been put in subjection, obviously the one who put all things in subjection to him is the exception.
28. And once all things have been put in subjection to him, the Son himself will then also be put in subjection to the one who put all things in subjection to him, so that God may be all in all.
29. Otherwise, what will those who are baptized for the dead accomplish? If the dead are not raised at all, why do people get baptized for them?
30. And why do we ourselves face danger every hour?
31. I die every day—I swear it, brothers and sisters, by my boasting about you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32. If, humanly speaking, I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what did I gain by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
33. Do not be fooled: “Evil companions spoil good character.”
34. Sober up, as you ought to, and stop sinning, for some are ignorant of God. I am saying this to make you ashamed.
35. But someone may ask, “In what way are the dead raised? What sort of body will they have when they come?”
36. Fool! What you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
37. And when you sow, you do not sow the body that will come to be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or of something else.
38. Then God gives it the body he has decided on, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
39. Not all flesh is the same. Human beings have one kind of flesh, animals another, birds another, and fish another.
40. There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth; but the heavenly ones have one kind of glory, and the earthly ones a different kind.
41. The sun has one glory, the moon another glory, the stars yet another; indeed, one star is different from another in glory.
42. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.
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 natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If a natural body exists, a spiritual one exists too.
45. So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46. The spiritual does not come first, however; the natural comes first, and after that the spiritual.
47. The first man came out of the earth and was made of dust; the second man comes from heaven.
48. Those who are made of dust are like the one made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like the heavenly one.
49. And as we have worn the image of the one made of dust, we will also wear the image of the heavenly one.
50. This is my point, brothers and sisters: flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, and what is perishable does not inherit what is imperishable.
51. Look, I am letting you in on a mystery: not all of us will fall asleep, but all of us will be changed,
52. in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the final trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53. For this perishable body has to be clothed with imperishability, and this mortal body has to be clothed with immortality.
54. When this perishable body has been clothed with imperishability, and this mortal body has been clothed with immortality, then the word that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55. “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
56. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
58. So then, my dear brothers and sisters, be steady and unshakable, always overflowing in the Lord’s work, since you know that the toil you do in the Lord is not wasted.

## Nearby chapters

[1 Corinthians 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-corinthians/14.md)
[1 Corinthians 16](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-corinthians/16.md)

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