English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Corinthians Book, chapter 15, verse 32 in Ncv Version

1 Corinthians 15 : 1 (NCV)

Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to remember the Good News I brought to you. You received this Good News and continue strong in it.

1 Corinthians 15 : 2 (NCV)

And you are being saved by it if you continue believing what I told you. If you do not, then you believed for nothing.

1 Corinthians 15 : 3 (NCV)

I passed on to you what I received, of which this was most important: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;

1 Corinthians 15 : 4 (NCV)

that he was buried and was raised to life on the third day as the Scriptures say;

1 Corinthians 15 : 5 (NCV)

and that he was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.

1 Corinthians 15 : 6 (NCV)

After that, Jesus was seen by more than five hundred of the believers at the same time. Most of them are still living today, but some have died.

1 Corinthians 15 : 7 (NCV)

Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles.

1 Corinthians 15 : 8 (NCV)

Last of all he was seen by me -- as by a person not born at the normal time.

1 Corinthians 15 : 9 (NCV)

All the other apostles are greater than I am. I am not even good enough to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 15 : 10 (NCV)

But God's grace has made me what I am, and his grace to me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But it was not I really; it was God's grace that was with me.)

1 Corinthians 15 : 11 (NCV)

So if I preached to you or the other apostles preached to you, we all preach the same thing, and this is what you believed.

1 Corinthians 15 : 12 (NCV)

Now since we preached that Christ was raised from the dead, why do some of you say that people will not be raised from the dead?

1 Corinthians 15 : 13 (NCV)

If no one is ever raised from the dead, then Christ has not been raised.

1 Corinthians 15 : 14 (NCV)

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is worth nothing, and your faith is worth nothing.

1 Corinthians 15 : 15 (NCV)

And also, we are guilty of lying about God, because we testified of him that he raised Christ from the dead. But if people are not raised from the dead, then God never raised Christ.

1 Corinthians 15 : 16 (NCV)

If the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either.

1 Corinthians 15 : 17 (NCV)

And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith has nothing to it; you are still guilty of your sins.

1 Corinthians 15 : 18 (NCV)

And those in Christ who have already died are lost.

1 Corinthians 15 : 19 (NCV)

If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone else in the world.

1 Corinthians 15 : 20 (NCV)

But Christ has truly been raised from the dead -- the first one and proof that those who sleep in death will also be raised.

1 Corinthians 15 : 21 (NCV)

Death has come because of what one man did, but the rising from death also comes because of one man.

1 Corinthians 15 : 22 (NCV)

In Adam all of us die. In the same way, in Christ all of us will be made alive again.

1 Corinthians 15 : 23 (NCV)

But everyone will be raised to life in the right order. Christ was first to be raised. When Christ comes again, those who belong to him will be raised to life,

1 Corinthians 15 : 24 (NCV)

and then the end will come. At that time Christ will destroy all rulers, authorities, and powers, and he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father.

1 Corinthians 15 : 25 (NCV)

Christ must rule until he puts all enemies under his control.

1 Corinthians 15 : 26 (NCV)

The last enemy to be destroyed will be death.

1 Corinthians 15 : 27 (NCV)

The Scripture says that God put all things under his control. When it says "all things" are under him, it is clear this does not include God himself. God is the One who put everything under his control.

1 Corinthians 15 : 28 (NCV)

After everything has been put under the Son, then he will put himself under God, who had put all things under him. Then God will be the complete ruler over everything.

1 Corinthians 15 : 29 (NCV)

If the dead are never raised, what will people do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people being baptized for them?

1 Corinthians 15 : 30 (NCV)

And what about us? Why do we put ourselves in danger every hour?

1 Corinthians 15 : 31 (NCV)

I die every day. That is true, brothers and sisters, just as it is true that I brag about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Corinthians 15 : 32 (NCV)

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus only with human hopes, I have gained nothing. If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we will die."

1 Corinthians 15 : 33 (NCV)

Do not be fooled: "Bad friends will ruin good habits."

1 Corinthians 15 : 34 (NCV)

Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you do not know God -- I say this to shame you.

1 Corinthians 15 : 35 (NCV)

But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have?"

1 Corinthians 15 : 36 (NCV)

Foolish person! When you sow a seed, it must die in the ground before it can live and grow.

1 Corinthians 15 : 37 (NCV)

And when you sow it, it does not have the same "body" it will have later. What you sow is only a bare seed, maybe wheat or something else.

1 Corinthians 15 : 38 (NCV)

But God gives it a body that he has planned for it, and God gives each kind of seed its own body.

1 Corinthians 15 : 39 (NCV)

All things made of flesh are not the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have another.

1 Corinthians 15 : 40 (NCV)

Also there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the beauty of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the beauty of the earthly bodies is another.

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The sun has one kind of beauty, the moon has another beauty, and the stars have another. And each star is different in its beauty.

1 Corinthians 15 : 42 (NCV)

It is the same with the dead who are raised to life. The body that is "planted" will ruin and decay, but it is raised to a life that cannot be destroyed.

1 Corinthians 15 : 43 (NCV)

When the body is "planted," it is without honor, but it is raised in glory. When the body is "planted," it is weak, but when it is raised, it is powerful.

1 Corinthians 15 : 44 (NCV)

The body that is "planted" is a physical body. When it is raised, it is a spiritual body. There is a physical body, and there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15 : 45 (NCV)

It is written in the Scriptures: "The first man, Adam, became a living person." But the last Adam became a spirit that gives life.

1 Corinthians 15 : 46 (NCV)

The spiritual did not come first, but the physical and then the spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15 : 47 (NCV)

The first man came from the dust of the earth. The second man came from heaven.

1 Corinthians 15 : 48 (NCV)

People who belong to the earth are like the first man of earth. But those people who belong to heaven are like the man of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15 : 49 (NCV)

Just as we were made like the man of earth, so we will also be made like the man of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15 : 50 (NCV)

I tell you this, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot have a part in the kingdom of God. Something that will ruin cannot have a part in something that never ruins.

1 Corinthians 15 : 51 (NCV)

But look! I tell you this secret: We will not all sleep in death, but we will all be changed.

1 Corinthians 15 : 52 (NCV)

It will take only a second -- as quickly as an eye blinks -- when the last trumpet sounds. The trumpet will sound, and those who have died will be raised to live forever, and we will all be changed.

1 Corinthians 15 : 53 (NCV)

This body that can be destroyed must clothe itself with something that can never be destroyed. And this body that dies must clothe itself with something that can never die.

1 Corinthians 15 : 54 (NCV)

So this body that can be destroyed will clothe itself with that which can never be destroyed, and this body that dies will clothe itself with that which can never die. When this happens, this Scripture will be made true: "Death is destroyed forever in victory."

1 Corinthians 15 : 55 (NCV)

"Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your pain?"

1 Corinthians 15 : 56 (NCV)

Death's power to hurt is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 Corinthians 15 : 57 (NCV)

But we thank God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15 : 58 (NCV)

So my dear brothers and sisters, stand strong. Do not let anything change you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your work in the Lord is never wasted.