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Festivity
- Easter - What Bible says about Resurrection
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Corinthians 15:12--49
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from
the dead, how can some of you say that there is
no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is
no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ
has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been
raised, then our preaching is in vain and your
faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting
God, because we testified about 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, not even Christ has been raised. 17
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith
is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then
those also who have fallen asleep in Christ has
perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this
life only, 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 fallen
asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man
has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall
all be made alive? 23 But each in his own order:
Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those
who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when
he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after
destroying every rule 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 “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 accepted
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.
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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 seeds its own
body. 39 For not all flesh are 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. 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 natural, and then the spiritual.
47 The first man was from the earth, a man of
dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was
the man of dust, so also are those who are of
the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also
are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have
borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also
bear the image of the man of heaven.
John11:25
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the
life. Whoever believes in me will live, even though
he dies”
Source: The Holy Bible, The bible Society of India,
Today’s English Version
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