Chapter 15
MOREOVER, brethren, I declare to you the Good News which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand;
2 By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how that the Anointed One of Yah died for our sins according to the writings;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the writings:
5 And that he was seen of Kěpha, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain to now, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of Ya‛aqoḇ; then by all the Emissaries.
8 And last of all he was seen by me also, as one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the Emissaries, that am not meet to be called an emissary, because I persecuted the assembly of Yah.
10 But by the Chen of Yah I am what I am: and his Chen which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the Chen of Yah which was with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
12 Now if the Anointed One of Yah be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is the Anointed One of Yah not risen:
14 And if the Anointed One of Yah be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your emunah is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of Yah; because we have testified of Yah that he raised up the Anointed One of Yah: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead do not rise, then the Anointed One of Yah is not raised:
17 And if the Anointed One of Yah is not raised, your emunah is vain; you are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in the Anointed One of Yah are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in the Anointed One of Yah, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is the Anointed One of Yah risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in the Anointed One of Yah shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: the Anointed One of Yah the first fruits; afterward they that are the Anointed One of Yah’s at his coming.
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to Yah, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that Yah may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do which are immersed for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then immersed for the dead?
30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua our Adonay, I die daily.
32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesos, what advantages it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
34 Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some have not the knowledge of Yah: I speak this to your shame.
35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
36 Thou fool, that which thou sows is not quickened, unless it dies:
37 And that which thou sow, thou sow not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 But Yah gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the Kavod of the celestial is one, and the Kavod of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one Kavod of the sun, and another Kavod of the moon, and another Kavod of the stars: for one star differs from another star in Kavod.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in Kavod: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the Earth, Earthy: the second man is Adonay from Heaven.
48 As is the Earthy, such are they also that are Earthy: and as is the Heavenly, such are they also that are Heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the Earthy, we shall also bear the image of the Heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Yah; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to Yah, which gives us the victory through our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.