Modern Literal Version
[1 Corinthians 15]
15:1 Now I make known to you* brethren, the good-news which I proclaimed to you*, which you* also received, in which you* are also standing, 15:2 through which you* are also saved, if you*are holding-onto the good-news of the word in what I proclaimed to you*С unless you* vainly believed. 15:3 For* I gave to you* first, what I also received: that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures; {Isa 53:8-9}15:4 and that he was buried, and that he has been raisedupon the third day according to the Scriptures. {Psa 16:10}
{1Co 15:5-7, Mat 28:16-17, Mar 16:12-13, Luk 24:13-35, 24:44-49, Joh 20:26-31, Acts 1:3-8.}
15:5 And that he was seen by Cephas; thereafter by the twelve; 15:6 thereafter he was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, out of whom most remain until now, but some did also fall-asleep {i.e. died}; 15:7 thereafter he was seen by James; thereafter by all the apostles; 15:8 and last of all, like to the premature-baby, he was seen also to me. 15:9 For* I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation* of believersof God. 15:10 But I am what I am by the grace of God {Or: favor from God} and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me. 15:11 Therefore whether it is I, or it is those men, so we preach and so you* believed.
15:12 Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised up from the dead, how are some among you* saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised up; 15:14 and if Christ has not been raised up, consequently*, our preaching is empty and your* faith is also empty. 15:15 Now, we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God in saying that he raised the Christ up; whom consequently*, he did not raise up, if indeed* the dead are not raised up. 15:16 For* if the dead are not raised up, not even Christ has been raised up; 15:17 and if Christ has not been raised up, your*faith is futile. You* are still in your* sins. 15:18 Consequently*, also those who fell-asleep in Christ perished. 15:19 If we are those who have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are the most pitiful of all men.
15:20 But now Christ has been raised up from the dead, he became the first-fruit of those who have fallen-asleep. 15:21 For* since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead alsocame through a man. 15:22 For* just-like all die in Adam, so all will also be given-life in Christ.15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit; thereafter those who are the Christ's in his presence. 15:24 Thereafter is the end, whenever he gives up the kingdom to the God and Father; whenever he does-away-with all rule and all authority and power. 15:25 For* it is essential for him to reign, till the time he would have placed all his enemies under his feet. {Psa 110:1}15:26Thelast enemy done-away-with is death. 15:27 For* he subjected all things under his feet. {Psa 8:6} But whenever he says, All things are subjected, (it is evident that is outside{i.e. except} the one who has subjected all things to him). 15:28 But whenever all things are subject to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him, in order that God may be all in all.
15:29 Otherwise what will they do* who are immersed* on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not literally raised up, why then are they immersed* on behalf of the dead? 15:30 Why are we also in peril every hour? 15:31 I die every day by my boasting of you*, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. 15:32 If I quarreled with beasts in Ephesus according to the manner of man, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised up, 'We should eat and drink, for*the next-day we die.' {Isa 22:13}15:33 Do* not be misled: evil associations corrupt virtuous {F} morals. {Or: customs or habits; (inward & outward).}15:34 Be* righteously sober and do* not sin; for* some have ignorance of God. I say this to shame you*.
15:35 But someone will say, How are the dead raised up and with what manner of body do they come? 15:36 You fool, what you sow is not given-life if it does not die; 15:37 and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will become, but a naked kernel, if it might be of wheat or anyone of the rest of the grains; 15:38 but God gives it a body just-as he willed and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men and another flesh of animals and another of birds and another of fish 15:40 and heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, (but the glory of the heavenly is indeed different, and the glory of the earthly is different). 15:41 One gloryis of the sun and another glory is of the moon and another glory is of the stars; for*one star carries more-value in glory than that of another star.
15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. If it is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption. 15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power. 15:44 It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 15:45 So also it has been written, 'The first man Adam became a living soul.' {Gen 2:7} The last Adam is giving-life *for our spirit. 15:46 But the spiritualwas not first, but the physical, and thereafter the spiritual. 15:47 The first man is out of the earth,the terrestrial; the second man, the Lord, is out of heaven. 15:48 Such-as is the terrestrial, such alsoare the terrestrial and such-as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly. 15:49 And just-as we have worn the image of the terrestrial, we should also wear the image of the heavenly. 15:50 Now brethren, I say this, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God; neither is corruption inheriting incorruption.
{1Co 15:51-15:58 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1:11 &1Th 4:13-17 & 2Th 1:7-9 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}
15:51 Behold, I tell you* a mystery, Not all indeed will have fallen-asleep, but we will all be changed, 15:52 in the briefest moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for*the last trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised up incorruptible and we will be changed. 15:53 For*it is essential this corruptible body to be clothed with incorruption and this mortal body to be clothed with immortality. 15:54 But whenever this corruptible body should be clothed with incorruption and whenever this mortal should be clothed with immortality, then the word that has been written will become so, Death was swallowed up in victory. {Isa 25:8}15:55O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 15:57 but gratitude to God, who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.15:58 So-then my beloved brethren, become* grounded, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your* labor is not empty in the Lord.
Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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