Letters to the Churches

For if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vaine, and your faith is also vaine.

And we are found also false witnesses of God: for we haue testified of God, that he hath raised vp Christ: whome he hath not raised vp, if so be the dead be not raised.

For if the dead be not raised, then is Christ not raised.

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine: ye are yet in your sinnes.

And so they which are a sleepe in Christ, are perished.

If in this life onely wee haue hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.

But nowe is Christ risen from the dead, and was made the first fruites of them that slept.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, euen so in Christ shall all be made aliue,

But euery man in his owne order: the first fruites is Christ, afterward, they that are of Christ, at his comming shall rise againe.

Then shalbe the end, when he hath deliuered vp the kingdome to God, euen the Father, when he hath put downe all rule, and all authoritie and power.

For he must reigne till hee hath put all his enemies vnder his feete.

The last enemie that shalbe destroyed, is death.

For he hath put downe all things vnder his feete. (And when he saith that all things are subdued to him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put downe all things vnder him.)

And when all things shalbe subdued vnto him, then shall the Sonne also himselfe be subiect vnto him, that did subdue all things vnder him, that God may be all in all.

Els what shall they doe which are baptized for dead? if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for dead?

Why are wee also in ieopardie euery houre?

By your reioycing which I haue in Christ Iesus our Lord, I die dayly.

If I haue fought with beastes at Ephesus after ye maner of men, what aduantageth it me, if the dead be not raised vp? let vs eate and drinke: for to morowe we shall die.

Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.

Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.

But some man will say, Howe are the dead raised vp? and with what body come they foorth?

O foole, that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die.

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shalbe, but bare corne as it falleth, of wheat, or of some other.