Thomson(i)
1 I now, brethren, remind you in what terms I proclaimed the gospel which I proclaimed to you, and which you received, and in which you have continued,
2 and by which also you are saved, if you strictly adhere to it, unless indeed you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you, as one of the principal things, that which I actually received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;
4 and that he was buried; and that he was raised up the third day according to the scriptures;
5 and that he was seen by Cephas, then, by the twelve;
6 after that he was seen by above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater number are even now alive, but some indeed are composed to rest;
7 after that he was seen by James, then by all the apostles;
8 and, last of all, he was seen also by me, who am as it were one born out of due time;
9 for I am the very least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God.
10 But by the favour of God I am what I am; and this favour of his which reached me was not fruitless; but I have laboured more than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Whether therefore I or they laboured, thus do we proclaim, and thus you have believed.
12 Now, if Christ be proclaimed, that he hath been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 If there is indeed no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not raised.
14 And if Christ hath not been raised, our proclamation is vain, and your belief is also vain.
15 And we are found to be actually false witnesses of God; because we have testified concerning God, that he hath raised the Christ, whom he hath not raised, if indeed the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ was not raised.
17 And if Christ hath not been raised, your belief is vain; you are still in your sins;
18 and consequently they, who have been composed to rest in Christ, have perished.
19 If we have hope in Christ in this life only, we, of all men, are most to be pitied.
20 But now Christ hath been raised from the dead. He was the first fruits of them who have been composed to rest.
21 For since by man came death, by man also cometh a resurrection of the dead.
22 For as by Adam all die, so by the Christ all shall be brought to life:
23 but every one in his proper order; Christ the first fruits; then they who belong to Christ, at his coming:
24 then the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God the father, when he shall have put a stop to all empire and all authority, and all power.
25 For he must reign until he hath put all the enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy, death, is to be destroyed:
27 for he hath put all under his feet. "But when it is said, That all are subjected; it is evident that there is an exception of him who subjected the all to him;
28 and when the all are subjected to him, then will the Son himself also be subjected to him who subjected the all to him that God may be the all in all.