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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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:44and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:55and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:77Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:88Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:1111Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:1313But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:1414And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:1616For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:1717And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:1818Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:1919For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:2020But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:2121For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:2222For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:2323But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:2525For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:2626The last enemy to be eliminated is death.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:3030Why too are we in danger every hour?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:3333Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.â€Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:3535But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?â€Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:3636Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:3939All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:4242It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:4343It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:4545So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person â€; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:4646However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:4747The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:5151Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:5353For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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.â€Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:5555“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? â€Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:5656The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
1 Corinthians 15:5757But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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 LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions
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