Paul Tells Believers About The Resurrection Of The Dead

Now, if Christ (Jesus Christ) is PREACHED, that He (Jesus Christ) has been RAISED (Jesus Christ’s Resurrection) from The Dead, how do some among YOU (Unbelievers) say, that there is NO Resurrection of The Dead?  But if there is NO Resurrection of The Dead, then Christ (Jesus Christ) is NOT RISEN.  And if Christ (Jesus Christ) is NOT RISEN, then Our (Believers) PREACHING is EMPTY and Your (Believers) Faith is also EMPTY.  Yes, and We (Believers) are found FALSE WITNESSES of GOD (GOD Almighty), because We (Believers) have TESTIFIED of GOD (GOD Almighty), that He (GOD Almighty) RAISED UP Christ (Jesus Christ), whom He (GOD Almighty) did NOT RAISE UP, IF in fact, The Dead Do NOT RISE.  For IF The Dead Do NOT RISE, then Christ (Jesus Christ) is NOT RISEN.  And IF Christ (Jesus Christ) is NOT RISEN, Your (Believers) Faith is FUTILE; YOU (Believers) are STILL in Your (Believers) Sins! Then also, Those (Believers) who have FALLEN ASLEEP in Christ (Jesus Christ) have PERISHED.  IF in This Life ONLY, We (Believers) have HOPE in Christ (Jesus Christ), We (Believers) are of All Men, The Most PITIABLE.

But NOW, Christ (Jesus Christ) IS RISEN from The Dead (Jesus Christ’s Resurrection), and has become The FIRSTFRUITS of Those who have Fallen Asleep.  For since by Man (Adam) came Death, by Man (Jesus Christ) also came The Resurrection of The Dead.  For as in Adam, All (Mankind) DIE, even so, in Christ (Jesus Christ), All (Believers) shall be MADE ALIVE.  But each one in his own order: Christ (Jesus Christ) The FIRSTFRUITS, afterward, Those (Believers) who are Christ’s (Jesus Christ’s) at His (Jesus Christ’s) COMING.  Then COMES The END, when He (Jesus Christ) DELIVERS The Kingdom to GOD (GOD Almighty) The Father, when He (Jesus Christ) PUTS AN END to All Rule and All Authority and Power.  For He (Jesus Christ) MUST REIGN, till He (GOD Almighty) has PUT All Enemies, under His (Jesus Christ’s) Feet.  The LAST ENEMY that will be DESTROYED is DEATH.  For “He (GOD Almighty) has PUT All Things, under His (Jesus Christ’s) Feet.”  But when He (GOD Almighty) SAYS “ALL THINGS are PUT under Him (Jesus Christ),” it is EVIDENT that He (GOD Almighty) who PUT All Things under Him (Jesus Christ) is EXCEPTED.  Now, when ALL THINGS are MADE SUBJECT to Him (Jesus Christ), then The Son (Jesus Christ) Himself, will also BE SUBJECT to Him (GOD Almighty) who PUT All Things under Him (Jesus Christ), that GOD (GOD Almighty) may be ALL, in ALL.

 

But someone will say, “How are The Dead RAISED UP?  And with WHAT BODY do They come?”  Foolish one, what YOU sow is NOT made alive, unless it dies.  And what YOU sow, YOU do NOT sow, that body that shall be, but mere grain, perhaps wheat or some other grain.  But GOD (GOD Almighty) GIVES it a BODY as He (GOD Almighty) PLEASES, and to each seed, its own body.  All flesh is NOT the same flesh, but there is One Kind of Flesh of Men, Another flesh of Animals, Another of Fish, and Another of Birds.  There are also CELESTIAL BODIES and TERRESTRIAL BODIES; but The GLORY of The Celestial is One, and The GLORY of The Terrestrial is Another.  There is One GLORY of The Sun, Another GLORY of The Moon, and Another GLORY of The stars; for one star differs from another star in GLORY.

So also is The RESURRECTION of The Dead.  The Body (The Natural Body) is SOWN in corruption, It (The Natural Body) is RAISED in INCORRUPTION.  It (The Natural Body) is SOWN in dishonor, It (The Natural Body) is RAISED in GLORY.  It (The Natural Body) is SOWN in weakness, It (The Natural Body) is RAISED in POWER.  It (The Natural Body) is SOWN a NATURAL BODY, It (The Natural Body) is RAISED a SPIRITUAL BODY.  There is a NATURAL BODY, and there is a SPIRITUAL BODY.  And so it is WRITTEN, “The First Man, Adam, became a LIVING BEING.”  The LAST Adam (Jesus Christ), BECAME A LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT.  However, The SPIRITUAL is NOT first, but The NATURAL, and AFTERWARD The SPIRITUAL.  The First Man (Adam) was of The Earth, MADE of dust; The Second Man is The LORD (Jesus Christ) FROM Heaven.  As was The Man (Adam) of dust, so also are Those (Unbelievers) who are MADE of dust; and as is The HEAVENLY Man (Jesus Christ), so also are Those (Believers) who are HEAVENLY.  And as We (Believers) have BORNE THE IMAGE of The Man (Adam) of dust, We (Believers) shall also BEAR THE IMAGE of The HEAVENLY Man (Jesus Christ).

 

Now this I (Believers) say, Brethren (Believers), that flesh and blood (The Natural Body) can NOT INHERIT The Kingdom of GOD (GOD Almighty); NOR does corruption INHERIT INCORRUPTION.  Behold, I (Believers) TELL YOU (Believers) a MYSTERY: We (Believers) Shall NOT All SLEEP (Die The First Death), BUT We (Living Believers) Shall All BE CHANGED, in a MOMENT, in The TWINKLING of an eye, at The LAST TRUMPET.  For The TRUMPET Will SOUND, and The Dead (Believers) will be RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE (The Spiritual Body), and We (Living Believers) shall be CHANGED (The Spiritual Body).  For THIS corruptible (The Natural Body) MUST Put On INCORRUPTION (The Spiritual Body), and THIS mortal (The Natural Body) MUST Put On IMMORTALITY (The Spiritual Body).  So when THIS corruptible (The Natural Body) has Put On INCORRUPTION (The Spiritual Body), and THIS mortal (The Natural Body) has Put On IMMORTALITY (The Spiritual Body), then shall be BROUGHT TO PASS, the saying that is WRITTEN: “Death is SWALLOWED UP in Victory.”  “O Death, where is your sting?  O Hades, where is your victory?”  The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is The Law.  But THANKS be to GOD (GOD Almighty), Who GIVES Us (Believers) The Victory, THROUGH Our LORD Jesus Christ.  Therefore, Beloved Brethren (Believers), be STEADFAST, IMMOVABLE, Always ABOUNDING in The Work of The LORD (Jesus Christ), KNOWING, that Your (Believers) Labor is NOT in vain in The LORD (Jesus Christ).

Fellow Believers, These Scriptures are from one of Paul’s Letters to The Corinthians (1 Corinthians 15).  Paul describes for Future Believers, not only HOW The Dead in Christ (Believers who have died The First Death) are RESURRECTED, but also, how Living Believers Will Be CHANGED, from Our (Living Believers) Natural Bodies to Our (Living Believers) Spiritual Bodies.  May These Scriptures Encourage Your (Believers) Spirit and PREPARE YOU (Believers) for EVERY Good Work.  Amen.