1 Corinthians 15:29-52
Skip Heitzig
1 Corinthians 15 (NKJV™) | |
29 | Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? |
30 | And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? |
31 | I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. |
32 | If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!" |
33 | Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits." |
34 | Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. |
35 | But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?" |
36 | Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. |
37 | And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain--perhaps wheat or some other grain. |
38 | But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body. |
39 | All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. |
40 | There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. |
41 | There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. |
42 | So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. |
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. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. |
45 | And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. |
46 | However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. |
47 | The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. |
48 | As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. |
49 | And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. |
50 | Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. |
51 | Behold, I tell 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 will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. |
New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.
First Corinthians was written to a church that was being adversely affected by the immoral culture around it. Skip Heitzig relates some teachings that seem very contemporary to us today.
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