1 Broeders, ek maak julle die evangelie bekend wat ek aan julle verkondig het, wat julle ook aangeneem het, waarin julle ook staan,

2 waardeur julle ook gered word as julle daaraan vashou op die wyse waarop ek dit aan julle verkondig het, of julle moet tevergeefs geglo het.

3 Want in die eerste plek het ek aan julle oorgelewer wat ek ook ontvang het, dat Christus vir ons sondes gesterf het volgens die Skrifte;

4 en dat Hy begrawe is, en dat Hy op die derde dag opgewek is volgens die Skrifte;

5 en dat Hy aan C,fas verskyn het; daarna aan die twaalf.

6 Daarna het Hy verskyn aan oor die vyf honderd broeders tegelyk, waarvan die meeste nou nog lewe, maar sommige al ontslaap het.

7 Daarna het Hy verskyn aan Jakobus; daarna aan al die apostels;

8 en laaste van almal het Hy verskyn ook aan my as die ontydig geborene.

9 Want ek is die geringste van die apostels, wat nie werd is om 'n apostel genoem te word nie, omdat ek die gemeente van God vervolg het.

10 Maar deur die genade van God is ek wat ek is, en sy genade aan my was nie tevergeefs nie; maar ek het oorvloediger gearbei as hulle almal; nogtans nie ek nie, maar die genade van God wat met my is.

11 Of dit nou ek of hulle is, so preek ons en so het julle geglo.

12 As dit dan gepreek word dat Christus uit die dode opgewek is, hoe sê sommige onder julle dat daar geen opstanding van die dode is nie?

13 As daar geen opstanding van die dode is nie, dan is Christus ook nie opgewek nie.

14 En as Christus nie opgewek is nie, dan is ons prediking vergeefs en vergeefs ook julle geloof;

15 en dan word ons valse getuies van God bevind, omdat ons teen God getuig het dat Hy Christus opgewek het, wat Hy nie opgewek het nie, ten minste as die dode nie opgewek word nie.

16 Want as die dode nie opgewek word nie, dan is Christus ook nie opgewek nie;

17 en as Christus nie opgewek is nie, dan is julle geloof nutteloos, dan is julle nog in julle sondes;

18 dan is ook die wat in Christus ontslaap het, verlore.

19 As ons net vir hierdie lewe op Christus hoop, dan is ons die ellendigste van alle mense.

20 Maar nou, Christus is opgewek uit die dode; Hy het die eersteling geword van die wat ontslaap het.

21 Want aangesien die dood deur 'n mens is, is die opstanding van die dode ook deur 'n mens.

22 Want soos hulle almal in Adam sterwe, so sal hulle ook almal in Christus lewend gemaak word;

23 maar elkeen in sy eie orde: as eersteling Christus, daarna die wat aan Christus behoort by sy koms.

24 Daarna kom die einde, wanneer Hy die koninkryk aan God die Vader oorgee, as Hy alle heerskappy en alle gesag en mag vernietig het.

25 Want Hy moet as koning heers totdat Hy al sy vyande onder sy voete gestel het.

26 Die laaste vyand wat vernietig word, is die dood.

27 Want Hy het alles aan sy voete onderwerp, maar wanneer Hy sê dat alles onderwerp is, is dit duidelik dat Hy uitgesonder is wat alles aan Hom onderwerp het.

28 En wanneer alles aan Hom onderwerp is, dan sal ook die Seun self Hom onderwerp aan die Een wat alles aan Hom onderwerp het, sodat God alles in almal kan wees.

29 Anders, wat sal hulle doen wat hulle vir die dode laat doop, as die dode geheel en al nie opgewek word nie? Waarom laat hulle hul nog vir die dode doop?

30 Waarom is ons ook elke uur in gevaar?

31 Ek sterf dag vir dag, broeders, so waar as ek op julle roem in Christus Jesus, onse Here.

32 As ek in fese op menslike wyse met wilde diere geveg het, watter voordeel was dit vir my? As die dode nie opgewek word nie, laat ons dan eet en drink, want môre sterf ons!

33 Moenie dwaal nie; slegte gesprekke bederf goeie sedes.

34 Wees nugter op die regte manier, en sondig nie; want sommige het geen kennis van God nie. Ek sê dit tot julle beskaming.

35 Maar iemand sal sê: Hoe word die dode opgewek, en met hoedanige liggaam kom hulle?

36 Dwase mens! Wat jy saai, word nie lewendig as dit nie gesterf het nie.

37 En wat jy saai -- jy saai nie die liggaam wat sal word nie, maar 'n blote korrel, byvoorbeeld van koring of van iets anders.

38 Maar God gee dit 'n liggaam soos Hy gewil het, en aan elkeen van die saadkorrels sy eie liggaam.

39 Alle vlees is nie dieselfde vlees nie, maar die vlees van mense is anders as die vlees van vee, en die van visse anders as die van voëls.

40 En daar is hemelse liggame en aardse liggame; maar die heerlikheid van die hemelse is anders as die van die aardse.

41 Anders is die heerlikheid van die son en anders die heerlikheid van die maan en anders die heerlikheid van die sterre; want die een ster verskil in heerlikheid van die ander ster.

42 So is ook die opstanding van die dode: daar word gesaai in verganklikheid, daar word opgewek in onverganklikheid;

43 daar word gesaai in oneer, daar word opgewek in heerlikheid; daar word gesaai in swakheid, daar word opgewek in krag.

44 'n Natuurlike liggaam word gesaai, 'n geestelike liggaam word opgewek. Daar is 'n natuurlike liggaam, en daar is 'n geestelike liggaam.

45 So is daar ook geskrywe: Die eerste mens, Adam, het 'n lewende siel geword; die laaste Adam 'n lewendmakende Gees.

46 Die geestelike ewenwel is nie eerste nie, maar die natuurlike; daarna die geestelike.

47 Die eerste mens was uit die aarde aards, die tweede mens is die Here uit die hemel.

48 Soos die aardse mens was, so is ook die aardse mense; en soos die hemelse mens is, so is ook die hemelse mense.

49 En soos ons die beeld van die aardse gedra het, so sal ons ook die beeld van die hemelse dra.

50 Maar dit verklaar ek, broeders, dat vlees en bloed die koninkryk van God nie kan beërwe nie; ook beërwe die verganklikheid nie die onverganklikheid nie.

51 Kyk, ek deel julle 'n verborgenheid mee: Ons sal wel nie almal ontslaap nie, maar ons sal almal verander word,

52 in 'n oomblik, in 'n oogwink, by die laaste basuin; want die basuin sal weerklink, en die dode sal onverganklik opgewek word; en ons sal verander word.

53 Want hierdie verganklike moet met onverganklikheid beklee word, en hierdie sterflike moet met onsterflikheid beklee word.

54 En wanneer hierdie verganklike met onverganklikheid beklee is en hierdie sterflike met onsterflikheid beklee is, dan sal vervul word die woord wat geskrywe is: Die dood is verslind in die oorwinning.

55 Dood, waar is jou angel? Doderyk, waar is jou oorwinning?

56 Die angel van die dood is die sonde, en die krag van die sonde is die wet.

57 Maar God sy dank, wat ons die oorwinning gee deur onse Here Jesus Christus.

58 Daarom, my geliefde broeders, wees standvastig, onbeweeglik, altyd oorvloedig in die werk van die Here, omdat julle weet dat julle arbeid in die Here nie tevergeefs is nie.

1 Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,

2 By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

3 For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

4 And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

5 And he was seen by Cephas; then by the twelve;

6 Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping;

7 Then he was seen by James; then by all the Apostles.

8 And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.

9 For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

11 If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

12 Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

13 But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead:

14 And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

15 Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

16 For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

17 And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

18 And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.

20 But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

21 For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

22 For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

23 But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.

24 Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.

25 For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.

26 The last power to come to an end is death.

27 For, as it says, He has put all things under his feet. But when he says, All things are put under him, it is clear that it is not said about him who put all things under him.

28 And when all things have been put under him, then will the Son himself be under him who put all things under him, so that God may be all in all.

29 Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?

30 And why are we in danger every hour?

31 Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

35 But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

36 Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

37 And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

38 But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes.

40 And there are bodies of heaven and bodies of earth, but the glory of the one is different from that of the other.

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

42 So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

43 It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

44 It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

45 And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

46 But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.

47 The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.

48 Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.

49 And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

50 Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

51 See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

52 In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

53 For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

54 But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.

55 O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

57 But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.