1 Corinthians 15:1-28

NSB(i) 1 Brothers, I declared the good news to you. You have received it and should continue strong in it. 2 You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain. 3 First of all, I delivered to you what I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. 4 He was buried, and he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. 5 He was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles. 6 More than five hundred brothers saw him at the same time after that. Most of them remain to this day, but some have fallen asleep [in death]. 7 Then he was seen by James, and then by all the apostles. 8 And last of all I also saw him, as of one with an untimely birth. 9 I am the least of the apostles and do not deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the people of God. 10 By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me. 11 Therefore whether they preached or I preached, you believed. 12 If we preached that Christ was raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is worth nothing, and your faith is also without value. 15 We are found to be false witnesses of God because we have testified that God raised Christ from the dead. If he did not raise him up from the dead then the dead are not raised up. 16 For if the dead are not raised up then Christ has not been raised. 17 And if Christ is not resurrected, your faith is worth nothing, and you are still in your sins. 18 Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable (pitiable). 20 Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who slept [in death]. 21 Death came because of what one man did. The resurrection of the dead also comes because of what one man did. 22 In Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 Everyone will be raised to life in the right order: Christ the first fruits and afterward those who belong to Christ at the time of his coming. 24 In the end Christ will deliver the kingdom to God the Father. Christ will destroy every ruler and all authority and all power. 25 For he (Christ) must rule as king until he (God) puts all enemies under his feet (his control). (Psalm 2; 110) (Daniel 2:44) (Revelation 5:10; 20:6) 26 The last enemy to be destroyed will be death. (Revelation 20:14) 27 According to the Scriptures: God has placed all things under his control (subjection). (Ephesians 1:22) But when he said all things are placed under him, it is with the exception of [God]. For [God] is the one who placed all things under him (Christ). (1 Peter 3:22) (John 3:35) 28 When all things shall be subdued under the Son, then the Son will also be subjected to God who put all things under him, that God may be all in all (ruler over everything).