1Soothly, brethren, I make the gospel known to you, which I have preached to you, which also ye have taken, in which ye stand,

2by which also ye shall be saved; by which reason I have preached to you, if ye hold, if ye have not believed idly.

3For I betook to you at the beginning [or in the first] that thing which also I have received; that Christ was dead for our sins, by the scriptures;

4and that he was buried, and that he rose again in the third day, after [the] scriptures;

5and that he was seen to Cephas, and after these things to eleven;

6afterward he was seen to more than five hundred brethren together, of which many live yet, but some be dead;

7afterward he was seen to James, and afterward to all the apostles.

8And last of all he was seen also to me, as to a dead-born child.

9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not worthy to be called apostle, for I pursued the church of God.

10But by the grace of God I am that thing that I am; and his grace was not void in me. For I travailed more plenteously than all they; but not I, but the grace of God with me.

11But whether I, or they, so we have preached, and so ye have believed.

12And if Christ is preached, that he rose again from death, how say some men among you, that the again-rising of dead men is not?

13And if the again-rising of dead men is not, neither Christ rose again from death.

14And if Christ rose not, our preaching is vain, our faith is vain.

15And we be found false witnesses of God, for we have said witnessing against God, that he raised Christ, whom he raised not, if dead men rise not again.

16For why if dead men rise not again, neither Christ rose again;

17and if Christ rose not again, our faith is vain; and yet ye be in your sins.

18And then they that have died [or slept] in Christ, have perished.

19If in this life only we be hoping in Christ, we be more wretches than all men.

20But now Christ hath risen [or rose] again from death, the first fruit of dead men;

21for death was by a man, and by a man is again-rising from death.

22And as in Adam all men die, so in Christ all men shall be quickened.

23But each man in his order; the first fruit [or first fruits], Christ, afterward they that be of Christ, that believed in the coming of Christ;

24afterward an end, when he shall betake the kingdom to God and to the Father, when he shall void all princehood, and power, and virtue.

25But it behooveth him to reign, till he put all his enemies under his feet.

26And at the last, death the enemy shall be destroyed;

27for he hath made subject all things under his feet. And when he saith, all things be subject to him, without doubt except him that subjected all things to him.

28And when all things be subjected to him, then the Son himself shall be subject to him, that made all things subject to him, that God be all things in all things.

29Else what shall they do, that be baptized for dead men, if in no wise dead men rise again? whereto be they baptized for them?

30And whereto be we in peril every hour?

31Each day I die for your glory, brethren, which glory I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

32If after man I have fought to beasts, [or against beasts], at Ephesus, what profiteth it to me, if dead men rise not again? Eat we, and drink we, for we shall die tomorrow [or tomorrow forsooth we shall die].

33Do not ye be deceived; for evil speeches, [or false doctrine], destroy good conduct [or corrupt good virtues].

34Awake ye, just men, and do not ye do sin [or do not ye sin]; for some men have ignorance of God, but to reverence, that is, to your shame, I speak to you.

35But some man saith, How shall dead men rise again, or in what manner body shall they come?

36[O!] Unwise man, that thing that thou sowest, is not quickened, but it die first;

37and that thing that thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that is to come, but a naked corn, as of wheat, or of some other seeds;

38and God giveth to it a body, as he will, and to each of seeds a proper body.

39Not each flesh is the same flesh, but one is of men, another is of beasts, another is of birds, another is of fishes.

40And there be heavenly bodies, and there be earthly bodies; but one glory is of heavenly bodies, and another is of earthly [bodies].

41Another clearness is of the sun, another clearness is of the moon, and another clearness is of the stars; and a star diverseth from a star in clearness.

42And so the again-rising of dead men. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in uncorruption;

43it is sown in unnobleness, it shall rise in glory; it is sown in infirmity, it shall rise in virtue;

44it is sown a beastly body, it shall rise a spiritual body. If there is a beastly body, there is also a spiritual body;

45as it is written, The first man Adam was made into a soul living, the last Adam into a spirit quickening.

46But the first is not that [body] that is spiritual, but that that is beast-like, afterward that that is spiritual.

47The first man of earth is earthly; the second man of heaven is heavenly.

48Such as the earthly man is, such be the earthly men; and such as the heavenly man is, such be also the heavenly men.

49Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly man, bear we also the image of the heavenly man.

50Brethren, I say this thing, that flesh and blood may not wield the king-dom of God, neither corruption shall wield uncorruption [or incorruption].

51Lo! I say to you private [or a mystery] of holy things. And all we shall rise again, but not all we shall be changed to the state of glory;

52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trump; for the trump shall sound, and dead men shall rise again, without corruption, and we shall be changed.

53For it behooveth this corruptible thing to clothe uncorruption [or incorruption], and this deadly thing to put away [or to clothe] undeadliness.

54But when this deadly thing shall clothe undeadliness, then shall the word be done [or fulfilled], that is written, Death is sopped up in victory.

55Death, where is thy victory? Death, where is thy prick?

56But the prick of death is sin; and the virtue of sin is the law.

57But do we thankings to God, that gave to us victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

58Therefore, my dearworthy brethren, be ye steadfast, and unmoveable, being plenteous in work of the Lord, evermore witting that your travail is not idle in the Lord.