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1 Corinthians 15:1¹Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 1:6-12 1 Cor 1:23-24 1 Pet 5:12 2 Cor 1:24 1 Cor 15:3-11 1 Thess 1:6 1 Thess 2:13 1 Thess 4:1 2 Thess 3:6 John 12:48

1 Corinthians 15:2²and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you?unless you believed in vain.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 3:6 Heb 2:1 Heb 3:14 1 Cor 1:18 2 Tim 1:9 Col 1:23 Eph 2:8 John 8:31-32 Heb 10:23 Jas 2:14

1 Corinthians 15:3³For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received?that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:24 Gal 1:4 Isa 53:1-12 1 John 2:2 Acts 26:22-23 Dan 9:24-26 Gal 1:12 Rev 1:5 Rom 4:25 Eph 5:2

1 Corinthians 15:4⁴and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 6:2 Matt 12:40 Ps 16:10-11 Acts 13:29-37 Acts 26:22-23 Isa 53:9-12 Luke 24:46 Jonah 1:17 1 Cor 15:16-21 Ps 2:7

1 Corinthians 15:5⁵and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 16:14 Acts 1:2-14 John 20:19-26 1 Cor 1:12 John 1:42 Luke 24:34-49 1 Cor 3:22 1 Cor 9:5 Acts 10:41

1 Corinthians 15:6⁶Then he appeared to more than 500 of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 16:7 Matt 28:10 Acts 13:36 1 Cor 15:18 2 Pet 3:4 Acts 7:60

1 Corinthians 15:7⁷Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 24:50 Acts 1:2-12 Luke 24:33 Acts 12:17 Luke 24:36

1 Corinthians 15:8⁸Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 9:1 Acts 26:16 Acts 18:9 Acts 22:18 Acts 9:17 2 Cor 12:1-6 Acts 22:14 Acts 9:3-6

1 Corinthians 15:9⁹For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 3:7-8 1 Tim 1:13-15 2 Cor 12:11 Acts 8:3 Acts 26:9-11 Acts 9:1-19 Gal 1:23 2 Cor 11:5 Acts 22:4-5 Gal 1:13

1 Corinthians 15:10¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them?yet not I, but the grace of God with me.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Phil 4:13 2 Cor 3:5 Phil 2:13 Eph 3:7-8 Eph 2:7-8 2 Cor 10:12-16 Gal 2:8 Rom 12:3 Rom 11:5-6 2 Cor 12:11

1 Corinthians 15:11¹¹Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:2 1 Cor 15:3-4

1 Corinthians 15:12¹²Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 26:8 Acts 17:32 2 Tim 2:18 Acts 23:8 1 Cor 15:13-19 2 Thess 2:17

1 Corinthians 15:13¹³But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 11:25-26 1 Thess 4:14 Rom 8:11 Rev 1:18 1 Pet 1:3 2 Cor 4:10-14 Rom 4:24-25 1 Cor 15:20 2 Tim 4:8 Col 3:1-4

1 Corinthians 15:14¹⁴And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:17 1 Thess 4:14 Acts 17:31 Jas 2:20 Matt 15:9 1 Cor 15:2 Gal 2:2 Isa 49:4 Ps 73:13 Gen 8:8

1 Corinthians 15:15¹⁵Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 2:24 Job 13:7-10 1 Cor 15:13 Acts 2:32 1 Cor 15:20 Acts 10:39-42 Acts 13:30-33 Acts 4:10 Acts 4:33 Exod 23:3

1 Corinthians 15:16¹⁶For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Corinthians 15:17¹⁷And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 4:25 1 Pet 1:3 1 Cor 15:14 1 Pet 1:21 Rom 8:33-34 Rom 5:10 1 Cor 15:2 Acts 5:31 Heb 10:4-12 Acts 13:38-39

1 Corinthians 15:18¹⁸Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Thess 4:13-14 1 Thess 4:16 1 Cor 15:6 Rev 14:13

1 Corinthians 15:19¹⁹For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:21 Rev 14:13 2 Tim 1:12 1 Cor 4:9-13 2 Tim 3:12 Acts 14:22 Luke 21:34 Eph 1:12-13 John 16:33 Luke 8:14

1 Corinthians 15:20²⁰But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:23 Acts 26:23 Rev 1:5 1 Pet 1:3 Col 1:18 Rom 8:11 1 Cor 15:6

1 Corinthians 15:21²¹For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 11:25 Rom 5:12-17 Rom 6:23 1 Cor 15:22

1 Corinthians 15:22²²For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 5:12-21 1 Cor 15:45-49 John 5:21-29 Gen 2:17 Gen 3:6 Gen 3:19

1 Corinthians 15:23²³But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 26:19 Gal 3:29 1 Cor 15:52 1 Cor 15:20 1 Thess 4:15-17 2 Cor 10:7 1 Thess 2:19 Gal 5:24 1 Cor 3:23

1 Corinthians 15:24²⁴Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 7:27 Dan 7:14 Matt 28:18 Isa 9:7 John 13:3 Matt 11:27 1 Tim 6:15 Dan 2:44 John 3:35 Matt 24:13

1 Corinthians 15:25²⁵For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 110:1 Heb 10:12-13 Matt 22:44 Heb 1:13 Ps 2:6-10 Eph 1:22 Acts 2:34 Mark 12:36 Ps 45:3-6 Luke 20:42-43

1 Corinthians 15:26²⁶The last enemy to be eliminated is death.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:10 1 Cor 15:55 Rev 21:4 Rev 20:14 Isa 25:8 Heb 2:14 Hos 13:14 Luke 20:36

1 Corinthians 15:27²⁷For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says ?everything? has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 8:6 Heb 2:8 Matt 28:18 Matt 11:27 Eph 1:22 John 13:3 John 3:35 1 Pet 3:22 Phil 2:9-11 Rev 1:18

1 Corinthians 15:28²⁸And when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 3:11 1 Cor 3:23 Eph 1:23 Phil 3:21 1 Cor 11:3 John 14:28 1 Cor 12:6 Rev 19:11-21 Matt 13:41-43 Dan 2:40-45

1 Corinthians 15:29²⁹Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 6:3-4 1 Cor 15:16 Matt 20:22 1 Cor 15:32

1 Corinthians 15:30³⁰Why too are we in danger every hour?Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:23-27 2 Cor 6:9 1 Cor 15:31 2 Cor 4:7-12 Gal 5:11 Rom 8:36-39

1 Corinthians 15:31³¹Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:10-11 Rom 8:36 1 Cor 4:9-13 Phil 3:3 1 Thess 3:9 2 Cor 11:23 Acts 20:23 Jer 11:7 2 Cor 1:12 1 Sam 8:9

1 Corinthians 15:32³²If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 22:13 Isa 56:12 Luke 12:19 2 Cor 1:8-10 2 Pet 2:12 Acts 18:19 Acts 19:1 Gal 3:15 Jude 1:10 Luke 9:25

1 Corinthians 15:33³³Do not be deceived: ?Bad company corrupts good morals.?Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 13:20 Matt 24:4 1 Cor 5:6 Prov 9:6 Eph 5:6 Gal 6:7 2 Tim 2:16-18 1 Cor 6:9 Matt 24:24 2 Pet 2:2

1 Corinthians 15:34³⁴Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God?I say this to your shame!Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 6:5 Heb 5:11-12 Rom 13:11 Joel 1:5 Eph 5:14 1 Cor 8:7 John 5:14 John 8:11 Jonah 1:6 Rom 1:28

1 Corinthians 15:35³⁵But someone will say, ?How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come??Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 37:3 1 Cor 15:38-53 Phil 3:21 Rom 9:19 Eccl 11:5 Job 11:12 Job 22:13 John 3:4 John 3:9 John 9:10

1 Corinthians 15:36³⁶Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:24 Luke 11:40 Eph 5:15 Luke 12:20 Luke 24:25 Rom 1:22

1 Corinthians 15:37³⁷And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed ?perhaps of wheat or something else.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Corinthians 15:38³⁸But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:7 Isa 61:11 Gen 1:11-12 Mark 4:26-29 Ps 104:14

1 Corinthians 15:39³⁹All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 1:20-26

1 Corinthians 15:40⁴⁰And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Corinthians 15:41⁴¹There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:19 Isa 24:23 Ps 148:3-5 Gen 1:14 Job 31:26 Ps 19:4-6 Ps 8:3

1 Corinthians 15:42⁴²It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 12:3 Matt 13:43 Phil 3:20-21 1 Pet 1:4 Rom 8:21 1 Cor 15:50-54 Acts 2:27 Acts 2:31 Acts 13:34-37 Gen 3:19

1 Corinthians 15:43⁴³It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 3:4 1 Cor 6:14 Phil 3:20-21 2 Cor 13:4 Dan 12:1 Mark 12:24-25 Matt 22:29-30 Job 14:10 Matt 13:43 Phil 3:10

1 Corinthians 15:44⁴⁴it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:50 John 20:19 Luke 24:31 John 20:26

1 Corinthians 15:45⁴⁵So also it is written, ?The first man, Adam, became a living person ?; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 5:21 Gen 2:7 Rom 8:2 Rom 8:10-11 Rom 5:12-14 John 6:63 John 14:6 John 6:33 John 6:39-40 John 6:57

1 Corinthians 15:46⁴⁶However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 3:9-10 Eph 4:22-24 Rom 6:6

1 Corinthians 15:47⁴⁷The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:31 Gen 2:7 Gen 3:19 2 Cor 5:1 1 Cor 15:45 Isa 9:6 John 3:12-13 Luke 2:11 1 Tim 3:16 Acts 10:36

1 Corinthians 15:48⁴⁸Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 5:3 John 3:6 Phil 3:20-21 Job 14:4 Rom 5:12-21 1 Cor 15:21-22

1 Corinthians 15:49⁴⁹And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 8:29 2 Cor 3:18 1 John 3:2 2 Cor 4:10-11 Gen 5:3 Matt 13:43

1 Corinthians 15:50⁵⁰Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:3-6 Matt 16:17 2 Cor 5:1 Eph 4:17 Gal 5:16 1 Cor 6:13 Gal 3:17 1 Cor 1:12 1 Cor 7:29 2 Cor 9:6

1 Corinthians 15:51⁵¹Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed?Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Thess 4:14-17 Phil 3:21 1 Cor 15:20 Eph 1:9 1 Cor 4:1 1 Cor 15:6 1 Cor 2:7

1 Corinthians 15:52⁵²in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Thess 4:16-17 Matt 24:31 John 5:28 John 5:25 Isa 27:13 1 Cor 15:42 2 Pet 3:10 Zech 9:14 1 Cor 15:50 Ezek 33:6

1 Corinthians 15:53⁵³For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:2-4 1 John 3:2 Eph 4:24 Rom 13:12-14 Rom 2:7 Gal 3:27

1 Corinthians 15:54⁵⁴Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, ?Death has been swallowed up in victory.?Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 25:8 Heb 2:14-15 Rev 20:14 Rev 21:4 Luke 20:36 2 Cor 4:11 2 Thess 1:10 Rom 8:11 Rom 2:7 Rom 6:12

1 Corinthians 15:55⁵⁵?Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? ?Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 13:14 Ps 89:48 Rom 5:14 Acts 2:27 Ps 49:8-15 Eccl 2:15-16 Acts 9:5 Eccl 8:8 Eccl 9:5-6 Rev 20:13-14

1 Corinthians 15:56⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 4:15 Gal 3:10-13 Rom 6:23 Rom 7:5-13 John 8:24 Rom 5:12-13 John 8:21 Rom 5:20 Heb 9:27 Rom 3:19-20

1 Corinthians 15:57⁵⁷But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 2:14 Rom 8:37 1 John 5:4-5 Prov 21:31 Rev 12:11 John 16:33 2 Cor 9:15 Ps 98:1 Rev 15:2-3 Eph 5:20

1 Corinthians 15:58⁵⁸So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong?s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 6:9 2 Chr 15:7 Heb 6:10 Phil 2:16 1 Cor 3:8 2 Pet 3:17-18 Col 1:23 Heb 13:15-16 1 Thess 1:3 Ps 55:22

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