Thematic Bible




1 Corinthians 15:1 (show verse)

Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it.

1 Corinthians 15:2 (show verse)

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

1 Corinthians 15:3 (show verse)

For I passed on to you as most important what I also received:

that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 15:4 (show verse)

that He was buried,
that He was raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 15:5 (show verse)

and that He appeared to Cephas,
then to the Twelve.

1 Corinthians 15:6 (show verse)

Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time;
most of them are still alive,
but some have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:7 (show verse)

Then He appeared to James,
then to all the apostles.

1 Corinthians 15:8 (show verse)

Last of all, as to one abnormally born,
He also appeared to me.

1 Corinthians 15:9 (show verse)

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 15:10 (show verse)

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

1 Corinthians 15:11 (show verse)

Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

1 Corinthians 15:12 (show verse)

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?

1 Corinthians 15:13 (show verse)

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;

1 Corinthians 15:14 (show verse)

and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.

1 Corinthians 15:15 (show verse)

In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified about God that He raised up Christ—whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised.

1 Corinthians 15:16 (show verse)

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised.

1 Corinthians 15:17 (show verse)

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15:18 (show verse)

Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

1 Corinthians 15:19 (show verse)

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

1 Corinthians 15:20 (show verse)

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:21 (show verse)

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.

1 Corinthians 15:22 (show verse)

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:23 (show verse)

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:24 (show verse)

Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

1 Corinthians 15:25 (show verse)

For He must reign until He puts all His enemies under His feet.

1 Corinthians 15:26 (show verse)

The last enemy to be abolished is death.

1 Corinthians 15:27 (show verse)

For God has put everything under His feet. But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception.

1 Corinthians 15:28 (show verse)

And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.

1 Corinthians 15:29 (show verse)

Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them?

1 Corinthians 15:30 (show verse)

Why are we in danger every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:31 (show verse)

I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day!

1 Corinthians 15:32 (show verse)

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

1 Corinthians 15:33 (show verse)

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

1 Corinthians 15:34 (show verse)

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

1 Corinthians 15:35 (show verse)

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”

1 Corinthians 15:36 (show verse)

Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

1 Corinthians 15:37 (show verse)

And as for what you sow—you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.

1 Corinthians 15:38 (show verse)

But God gives it a body as He wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.

1 Corinthians 15:39 (show verse)

Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

1 Corinthians 15:40 (show verse)

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones.

1 Corinthians 15:41 (show verse)

There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for one star differs from another star in splendor.

1 Corinthians 15:42 (show verse)

So it is with the resurrection of the dead:

Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption;

1 Corinthians 15:43 (show verse)

sown in dishonor, raised in glory;
sown in weakness, raised in power;

1 Corinthians 15:44 (show verse)

sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:45 (show verse)

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:46 (show verse)

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15:47 (show verse)

The first man was from the earth
and made of dust;
the second man is from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:48 (show verse)

Like the man made of dust,
so are those who are made of dust;
like the heavenly man,
so are those who are heavenly.

1 Corinthians 15:49 (show verse)

And just as we have borne
the image of the man made of dust,
we will also bear
the image of the heavenly man.

1 Corinthians 15:50 (show verse)

Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption.

1 Corinthians 15:51 (show verse)

Listen! I am telling you a mystery:

We will not all fall asleep,
but we will all be changed,

1 Corinthians 15:52 (show verse)

in a moment, in the blink of an eye,
at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound,
and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we will be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:53 (show verse)

For this corruptible must be clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal must be clothed
with immortality.

1 Corinthians 15:54 (show verse)

When this corruptible is clothed
with incorruptibility,
and this mortal is clothed
with immortality,
then the saying that is written will take place:
Death has been swallowed up in victory.

1 Corinthians 15:55 (show verse)

Death, where is your victory?
Death, where is your sting?

1 Corinthians 15:56 (show verse)

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

1 Corinthians 15:57 (show verse)

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ!

1 Corinthians 15:58 (show verse)

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.