MODERN LITERAL VERSION

15:1 Now I make known to you* brethren, the good-news which I proclaimed to you*, which you* also received, in which you* also stand,
15:2 through which you* are also saved, if you* are holding-onto the word which I proclaimed to you*– unless you* vainly believed.
15:3 For* I gave to you*, first of all, what I also received: that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures;
15:4 and that he was buried, and that he has been raised up on the third day according to the Scriptures.
{1 Cor 15:5-7, Mt 28:16-17, Mk 16:12-13, Lk 24:13-35, 44-49, Jn 20:26-31, Acts 1:3-8.}

15:5 And that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;
15:6 thereafter he appeared to over five hundred brethren at once, out of whom most remain until now, but some have also fallen-asleep;
15:7 thereafter he appeared to James; thereafter to all the apostles;
15:8 and last of all, like to the premature-baby, he appeared also to me.
15:9 For* I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the {F} congregation* of God.
15:10 But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace which was given to me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
15:11 Then* whether it is I, or it is they, so we preach and so you* believed.

15:12 Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised up from the dead, how do some among you* say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised up;
15:14 and if Christ has not been raised up, consequently, our preaching is empty, your* faith is also empty.
15:15 Now, we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God in saying that he raised Christ up; whom consequently, he did not raised up, if indeed* the dead are not raised up.
15:16 For* if the dead are not raised up, not even Christ has been raised up;
15:17 and if Christ has not been raised up, your* faith is futile. You* are still in your* sins.
15:18 Consequently, also they who have fallen-asleep in Christ have perished.
15:19 If we have hoped in Christ, only in this life, we are the most pitiful of all men.

15:20 But now Christ has been raised up from the dead, he became the first-fruit of those who have fallen-asleep.
15:21 For* since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
15:22 For* as all die in Adam, so all will also be given-life in Christ.
15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit; thereafter those who are Christ's at his presence.
15:24 Thereafter is the end, whenever he gives up the kingdom to the God and Father; whenever he does-away-with all rule and all authority and power.
15:25 For* it is essential for him to reign, till whenever he has placed all his enemies under his feet. {Ps. 110:1}
15:26 The last enemy done-away-with is death.
15:27 For* he has made all things subject under his feet. {Ps 8:6} But whenever he says, All things are made subject, it is evident that it is all things outside, who did subject all things to him.
15:28 But whenever all things have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who did subject all things to him, that* God may be all in all.

15:29 Otherwise what will they do who are immersed* on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not literally raised up, why then are they immersed* on behalf of the dead?
15:30 Why are we also in peril every hour?
15:31 I die daily by your* boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
15:32 If I quarreled with beasts in Ephesus according to the manner of man, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised up, ‘We should eat and drink, for* tomorrow we die.' {Is. 22:13}
15:33 Do not be misled: evil associations corrupt virtuous {F} morals.
15:34 Be righteously sober and do not sin; for* some have ignorance of God. I say this to shame you*.

15:35 But someone will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what manner of body do they come?
15:36 You foolish one, what you yourself sow is not given-life if it does not die;
15:37 and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will become, but a naked kernel, it may be of wheat or anyone of the rest of the grains;
15:38 but God gives it a body just-as it pleased him and to each seed a body of its own.

15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men and another flesh of animals and another flesh of birds and another of fish.

15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one but the glory of the earthly is another.
15:41 There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; for* one star carries more-value in glory than that of another star.

15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. If it is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption.
15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power.
15:44 It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
15:45 So also it has been written, ‘The first man Adam became a living soul.' {Gen. 2:7} The last Adam is giving-life *for our spirit.
15:46 But the spiritual was not first, but the physical , and thereafter the spiritual.
15:47 The first man is out of the earth, the terrestrial; the second man, the Lord, is out of heaven.
15:48 Such-as is the terrestrial, such are those also who are terrestrial and such-as is the heavenly, such also are those who are heavenly.
15:49 And as we have worn the image of the terrestrial, we should also wear the image of the heavenly.
15:50 Now brethren, I say this, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

15:51 Behold, I tell you* a mystery: we indeed will not all fall-asleep, but we will all be changed,
15:52 in the briefest moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for* the last trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised up incorruptible and we will be changed.
15:53 For* it is essential this corruptible body to be clothed with incorruption and this mortal to be clothed with immortality.
15:54 But whenever this corruptible body has been clothed with incorruption and whenever this mortal has been clothed with immortality, then the saying that has been written will happen, Death is swallowed up in victory. {Isa 25:8}
15:55 O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?
15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;
15:57 but gratitude to God, who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:58 So-then my beloved brethren, become grounded, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your* labor is not empty in the Lord.
{Footnotes: 1 Co 15:9 Or: church/the one true church, Eph 4:1-6; discussed more in the Appendix. 1Co 15:33- OR customs OR habits. (Inward & outward).}