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1 Corinthians 15:27-44 English Standard Version (ESV)

27. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.

28. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

29. Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?

30. Why are we in danger every hour?

31. I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!

32. What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

33. Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

34. Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

35. But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”

36. You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

37. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

38. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

39. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

40. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.

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

42. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

43. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

44. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.