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15 Now I want you to understand, brothers and sisters, the good newsg that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand,* 2 through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.*
3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures* 4 and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures* 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.* 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.h 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.* 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.* 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.* 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.* 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you believed.
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised, 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.* 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have diedi in Christ have perished. 19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.j,* 21 For since death came through a human, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human,* 22 for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ. 23 But each in its own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power.* 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.* 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.* 27 For “Godk has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is plain that this does not include the one 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 the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all.*
29 Otherwise, what will those people do who receive baptism on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?
30 And why are we putting ourselves in danger every hour?* 31 I die every day! That is as certain, brothers and sisters, as my boasting of you—a boast that I make in Christ Jesus our Lord.* 32 If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised,
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”*
“Bad company ruins good morals.”
34 Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people 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 Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.* 37 And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be but a bare seed, 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 Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.
42 So it is 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 physical body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.* 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the physical and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, made of dust; the second man isl from heaven.* 48 As one of dust, so are those who are of the dust, and as one of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the one of dust, we willm also bear the image of the one of heaven.*
50 What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.* 51 Look, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die,n but we will all be changed,* 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.* 53 For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”*
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.* 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.*
16 Now concerning the collection for the saints: you should follow the directions I gave to the churches of Galatia.* 2 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put aside and save whatever extra you earn, so that collections need not be taken when I come.* 3 And when I arrive, I will send any whom you approve with letters to take your gift to Jerusalem. 4 If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
5 I will visit you after passing through Macedonia—for I intend to pass through Macedonia*—6 and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way, wherever I go. 7 I do not want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. 8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, 9 for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
10 If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord just as I am;* 11 therefore let no one despise him. Send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers and sisters.*
12 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers and sisters, but he was not at all willing to come now. He will come when he has the opportunity.*
13 Keep alert; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.* 14 Let all that you do be done in love.*
15 Now, brothers and sisters, you know that members of the household of Stephanas were the first fruits in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints;* 16 I urge you to put yourselves at the service of such people and of everyone who works and toils with them.* 17 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence,* 18 for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So give recognition to such persons.*
19 The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, greet you warmly in the Lord.* 20 All the brothers and sisters send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
21 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. 22 Let anyone be accursed who has no love for the Lord. Our Lord, come!o,* 23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 24 My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.p
The Second Letter of Paul to the
Corinthians
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:*
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.*
Paul’s Thanksgiving after Affliction
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,* 4 who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.* 6 If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering. 7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our consolation.
8 We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.* 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He who rescued us from so deadly a peril will continue to rescue us;a on him we have set our hope that he will rescue us again,* 11 as you also join in helping us by your prayers, so that many may give thanks on ourb behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.*
The Postponement of Paul’s Visit
12 Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holinessc and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.* 13 For we write you nothing other than what you can read and also understand; I hope you will understand until the end—14 as you have already understood us in part—that on the day of the Lord Jesus we are your boast even as you are our boast.*
15 Since I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double favor;d,* 16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on to Judea.* 17 Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to ordinary human standards,e ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time? 18 As surely as God is faithful, our word to you is notf “Yes and No.” 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not “Yes and No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.”* 20 For in him every one of God’s promises is a “Yes.” For this reason it is through him that we say the “Amen,” to the glory of God.* 21 But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us,* 22 who has put his seal on us and giveng us his Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.*
23 But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.* 24 I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy because you stand firm in faith.*
2 So I made up my mind not to make another visit that causes you grief.* 2 For if I cause you grief, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have grieved? 3 And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer grief from those who should have made me rejoice, for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.* 4 For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you grief but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has caused it not to me but to some extent—not to exaggerate it—to all of you. 6 This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person;* 7 so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by even worse grief. 8 So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. 9 I wrote for this reason: to test you and to know whether you are obedient in everything.* 10 Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. In fact, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ. 11 And we do this so that we may not be outwitted by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his designs.
12 When I came to Troas to proclaim the good newsh of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord,* 13 but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said farewell to them and went on to Macedonia.
14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him.i 15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:* 16 to the one group a fragrance from deathj to death, to the other a fragrance from lifek to life. Who is qualified for these things?* 17 For we are not peddlers of God’s word like so many,l but as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.*
3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?* 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all, 3 and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.m,*
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are qualified of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our qualification is from God,* 6 who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.*
7 Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets,n came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,* 8 how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation,o much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!* 10 Indeed, what once had glory has in this respect lost its glory because of the greater glory, 11 for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!
12 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with complete frankness,* 13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory thatp was being set aside.* 14 But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside.* 15 Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds,q 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.* 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.* 18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.*
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