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1 And so I make known to you, brothers, the Gospel that I preached to you, which you also received, and on which you stand.
1 ADEMÁS os declaro, hermanos, el evangelio que os he predicado, el cual también recibisteis, en el cual también perseveráis;
2 By the Gospel, too, you are being saved, if you hold to the understanding that I preached to you, lest you believe in vain.
2 Por el cual asimismo, si retenéis la palabra que os he predicado, sois salvos, si no creísteis en vano.
3 For I handed on to you, first of all, what I also received: that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures;
3 Porque primeramente os he enseñado lo que asimismo recibí: Que Cristo fué muerto por nuestros pecados, conforme á las Escrituras;
4 and that he was buried; and that he rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures;
4 Y que fué sepultado, y que resucitó al tercer día, conforme á las Escrituras;
5 and that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.
5 Y que apareció á Cefas, y después á los doce.
6 Next he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, many of whom remain, even to the present time, although some have fallen asleep.
6 Después apareció á más de quinientos hermanos juntos; de los cuales muchos viven aún, y otros son muertos.
7 Next, he was seen by James, then by all the Apostles.
7 Después apareció á Jacobo; después á todos los apóstoles.
8 And last of all, he was seen also by me, as if I were someone born at the wrong time.
8 Y el postrero de todos, como á un abortivo, me apareció á mí.
9 For I am the least of the Apostles. I am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.
9 Porque yo soy el más pequeño de los apóstoles, que no soy digno de ser llamado apóstol, porque perseguí la iglesia de Dios.
10 But, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me has not been empty, since I have labored more abundantly than all of them. Yet it is not I, but the grace of God within me.
10 Empero por la gracia de Dios soy lo que soy: y su gracia no ha sido en vano para conmigo; antes he trabajado más que todos ellos: pero no yo, sino la gracia de Dios que fué conmigo.
11 For whether it is I or they: so we preach, and so you have believed.
11 Porque, ó [sea] yo ó [sean] ellos, así predicamos, y así habéis creído.
12 Now if Christ is preached, that he rose again from the dead, how is it that some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
12 Y si Cristo es predicado que resucitó de los muertos, ¿cómo dicen algunos entre vosotros que no hay resurrección de muertos?
13 For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen.
13 Porque si no hay resurrección de muertos, Cristo tampoco resucitó:
14 And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is useless, and your faith is also useless.
14 Y si Cristo no resucitó, vana es entonces nuestra predicación, vana es también vuestra fe.
15 Then, too, we would be found to be false witnesses of God, because we would have given testimony against God, saying that he had raised up Christ, when he had not raised him up, if, indeed, the dead do not rise again.
15 Y aun somos hallados falsos testigos de Dios; porque hemos testificado de Dios que él haya levantado á Cristo; al cual no levantó, si en verdad los muertos no resucitan.
16 For if the dead do not rise again, then neither has Christ risen again.
16 Porque si los muertos no resucitan, tampoco Cristo resucitó:
17 But if Christ has not risen, then your faith is vain; for you would still be in your sins.
17 Y si Cristo no resucitó, vuestra fe es vana; aun estáis en vuestros pecados.
18 Then, too, those who have fallen asleep in Christ would have perished.
18 Entonces también los que durmieron en Cristo son perdidos.
19 If we have hope in Christ for this life only, then we are more miserable than all men.
19 Si en esta vida solamente esperamos en Cristo, los más miserables somos de todos los hombres.
20 But now Christ has risen again from the dead, as the first-fruits of those who sleep.
20 Mas ahora Cristo ha resucitado de los muertos; primicias de los que durmieron es hecho.
21 For certainly, death came through a man. And so, the resurrection of the dead came through a man
21 Porque por cuanto la muerte [entró] por un hombre, también por un hombre la resurrección de los muertos.
22 And just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be brought to life,
22 Porque así como en Adam todos mueren, así también en Cristo todos serán vivificados.
23 but each one in his proper order: Christ, as the first-fruits, and next, those who are of Christ, who have believed in his advent.
23 Mas cada uno en su orden: Cristo las primicias; luego los que son de Cristo, en su venida.
24 Afterwards is the end, when he will have handed over the kingdom to God the Father, when he will have emptied all principality, and authority, and power.
24 Luego el fin; cuando entregará el reino á Dios y al Padre, cuando habrá quitado todo imperio, y toda potencia y potestad.
25 For it is necessary for him to reign, until he has set all his enemies under his feet.
25 Porque es menester que él reine, hasta poner á todos sus enemigos debajo de sus pies.
26 Lastly, the enemy called death shall be destroyed. For he has subjected all things under his feet. And although he says,
26 Y el postrer enemigo que será deshecho, será la muerte.
27 “All things have been subjected to him,” without doubt he does not include the One who has subjected all things to him.
27 Porque todas las cosas sujetó debajo de sus pies. Y cuando dice: Todas las cosas son sujetadas á él, claro está exceptuado aquel que sujetó á él todas las cosas.
28 And when all things will have been subjected to him, then even the Son himself will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.
28 Mas luego que todas las cosas le fueren sujetas, entonces también el mismo Hijo se sujetará al que le sujetó á él todas las cosas, para que Dios sea todas las cosas en todos.
29 Otherwise, what will those who are being baptized for the dead do, if the dead do not rise again at all? Why then are they being baptized for them?
29 De otro modo, ¿qué harán los que se bautizan por los muertos, si en ninguna manera los muertos resucitan? ¿Por qué pues se bautizan por los muertos?
30 Why also do we endure trials every hour?
30 ¿Y por qué nosotros peligramos á toda hora?
31 Daily I die, by means of your boasting, brothers: you whom I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
31 Sí, por la gloria que en orden á vosotros tengo en Cristo Jesús Señor nuestro, cada día muero.
32 If, according to man, I fought with the beasts at Ephesus, how would that benefit me, if the dead do not rise again? “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.”
32 Si como hombre batallé en Efeso contra las bestias, ¿qué me aprovecha? Si los muertos no resucitan, comamos y bebamos, que mañana moriremos.
33 Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.
33 No erréis: las malas conversaciones corrompen las buenas costumbres.
34 Be vigilant, you just ones, and do not be willing to sin. For certain persons have an ignorance of God. I say this to you with respect.
34 Velad debidamente, y no pequéis; porque algunos no conocen á Dios: para vergüenza vuestra hablo.
35 But someone may say, “How do the dead rise again?” or, “What type of body do they return with?”
35 Mas dirá alguno: ¿Cómo resucitarán los muertos? ¿Con qué cuerpo vendrán?
36 How foolish! What you sow cannot be brought back to life, unless it first dies.
36 Necio, lo que tú siembras no se vivifica, si no muriere [antes].
37 And what you sow is not the body that will be in the future, but a bare grain, such as of wheat, or of some other grain.
37 Y lo que siembras, no siembras el cuerpo que ha de salir, sino el grano desnudo, acaso de trigo, ó de otro [grano]:
38 For God gives it a body according to his will, and according to each seed’s proper body.
38 Mas Dios le da el cuerpo como quiso, y á cada simiente su propio cuerpo.
39 Not all flesh is the same flesh. But one is indeed of men, another truly is of beasts, another is of birds, and another is of fish.
39 Toda carne no es la misma carne; mas una carne ciertamente es la de los hombres, y otra carne la de los animales, y otra la de los peces, y otra la de las aves.
40 Also, there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But while the one, certainly, has the glory of heaven, the other has the glory of earth.
40 Y cuerpos hay celestiales, y cuerpos terrestres; mas ciertamente una es la gloria de los celestiales, y otra la de los terrestres.
41 One has the brightness of the sun, another the brightness of the moon, and another the brightness of the stars. For even star differs from star in brightness.
41 Otra es la gloria del sol, y otra la gloria de la luna, y otra la gloria de las estrellas: porque una estrella es diferente de otra en gloria.
42 So it is also with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown in corruption shall rise to incorruption.
42 Así también es la resurrección de los muertos. Se siembra en corrupción, se levantará en incorrupción;
43 What is sown in dishonor shall rise to glory. What is sown in weakness shall rise to power.
43 Se siembra en vergüenza, se levantará con gloria; se siembra en flaqueza, se levantará con potencia;
44 What is sown with an animal body shall rise with a spiritual body. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual one.
44 Se siembra cuerpo animal, resucitará espiritual cuerpo. Hay cuerpo animal, y hay cuerpo espiritual.
45 Just as it was written that the first man, Adam, was made with a living soul, so shall the last Adam be made with a spirit brought back to life.
45 Así también está escrito: Fué hecho el primer hombre Adam en ánima viviente; el postrer Adam en espíritu vivificante.
46 So what is, at first, not spiritual, but animal, next becomes spiritual.
46 Mas lo espiritual no es primero, sino lo animal; luego lo espiritual.
47 The first man, being earthly, was of the earth; the second man, being heavenly, will be of heaven.
47 El primer hombre, es de la tierra, terreno: el segundo hombre, [que es] el Señor, es del cielo.
48 Such things as are like the earth are earthly; and such things as are like the heavens are heavenly.
48 Cual el terreno, tales también los terrenos; y cual el celestial, tales también los celestiales.
49 And so, just as we have carried the image of what is earthly, let us also carry the image of what is heavenly.
49 Y como trajimos la imagen del terreno, traeremos también la imagen del celestial.
50 Now I say this, brothers, because flesh and blood is not able to possess the kingdom of God; neither will what is corrupt possess what is incorrupt.
50 Esto empero digo, hermanos: que la carne y la sangre no pueden heredar el reino de Dios; ni la corrupción hereda la incorrupción.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. Certainly, we shall all rise again, but we shall not all be transformed:
51 He aquí, os digo un misterio: Todos ciertamente no dormiremos, mas todos seremos transformados,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise up, incorruptible. And we shall be transformed.
52 En un momento, en un abrir de ojo, á la final trompeta; porque será tocada la trompeta, y los muertos serán levantados sin corrupción, y nosotros seremos transformados.
53 Thus, it is necessary for this corruptibility to be clothed with incorruptibility, and for this mortality to be clothed with immortality.
53 Porque es menester que esto corruptible sea vestido de incorrupción, y esto mortal sea vestido de inmortalidad.
54 And when this mortality has been clothed with immortality, then the word that was written shall occur: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
54 Y cuando esto corruptible fuere vestido de incorrupción, y esto mortal fuere vestido de inmortalidad, entonces se efectuará la palabra que está escrita: Sorbida es la muerte con victoria.
55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
55 ¿Dónde está, oh muerte, tu aguijón? ¿dónde, oh sepulcro, tu victoria?
56 Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
56 Ya que el aguijón de la muerte es el pecado, y la potencia del pecado, la ley.
57 But thanks be to God, who has given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
57 Mas á Dios gracias, que nos da la victoria por el Señor nuestro Jesucristo.
58 And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.
58 Así que, hermanos míos amados, estad firmes y constantes, creciendo en la obra del Señor siempre, sabiendo que vuestro trabajo en el Señor no es vano.
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- 1 Galatians 1:6–12; 1 Peter 5:12; 2 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 1:23–24; 1 Corinthians 15:3–11
- 2 Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 2:1; Hebrews 3:14; 2 Timothy 1:9; 1 Corinthians 1:18
- 3 1 Peter 2:24; Galatians 1:4; Isaiah 53:1–12; 1 John 2:2; Acts 26:22–23
- 4 Hosea 6:2; Matthew 12:40; Psalm 16:10–11; Isaiah 53:9–12; Acts 13:29–37
- 5 Mark 16:14; Acts 1:2–14; John 20:19–26; 1 Corinthians 1:12; Luke 24:34–49
- 6 Mark 16:7; Matthew 28:10; Acts 13:36; 2 Peter 3:4; Acts 7:60
- 7 Luke 24:50; Acts 1:2–12; Luke 24:33; Luke 24:36; Acts 12:17
- 8 1 Corinthians 9:1; Acts 26:16; Acts 22:18; Acts 18:9; Acts 9:17
- 9 Ephesians 3:7–8; 1 Timothy 1:13–15; 2 Corinthians 12:11; Acts 8:3; Acts 26:9–11
- 10 Philippians 4:13; Philippians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 3:5; Ephesians 3:7–8; Ephesians 2:7–8
- 11 1 Corinthians 2:2; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4
- 12 Acts 26:8; Acts 17:32; 2 Timothy 2:18; Acts 23:8; 1 Corinthians 15:13–19
- 13 John 11:25–26; Romans 8:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; Revelation 1:18; 1 Peter 1:3
- 14 1 Corinthians 15:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; Acts 17:31; James 2:20; Matthew 15:9
- 15 Acts 2:24; Job 13:7–10; Acts 2:32; 1 Corinthians 15:13; Romans 3:7–8
- 17 Romans 4:25; 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Corinthians 15:14; 1 Peter 1:21; Romans 8:33–34
- 18 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 14:13; 1 Corinthians 15:6
- 19 1 Peter 1:21; Revelation 14:13; 2 Timothy 1:12; 1 Corinthians 4:9–13; 2 Timothy 3:12
- 20 1 Corinthians 15:23; Revelation 1:5; Acts 26:23; 1 Peter 1:3; Colossians 1:18
- 21 John 11:25; Romans 5:12–17; Romans 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:22
- 22 Romans 5:12–21; 1 Corinthians 15:45–49; John 5:21–29; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:6
- 23 Galatians 3:29; Isaiah 26:19; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17
- 24 Daniel 7:27; Daniel 7:14; Matthew 28:18; John 13:3; Isaiah 9:7
- 25 Psalm 110:1; Hebrews 10:12–13; Matthew 22:44; Hebrews 1:13; Psalm 2:6–10
- 26 2 Timothy 1:10; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Revelation 21:4; Revelation 20:14; Isaiah 25:8
- 27 Psalm 8:6; Hebrews 2:8; Matthew 28:18; Matthew 11:27; Ephesians 1:22
- 28 Colossians 3:11; 1 Corinthians 3:23; Ephesians 1:23; Philippians 3:21; John 14:28
- 29 Romans 6:3–4; 1 Corinthians 15:16; 1 Corinthians 15:32; Matthew 20:22
- 30 2 Corinthians 11:23–27; 2 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Corinthians 15:31; Galatians 5:11; Romans 8:36–39
- 31 2 Corinthians 4:10–11; Romans 8:36; 1 Corinthians 4:9–13; Philippians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:9
- 32 Isaiah 22:13; Isaiah 56:12; Luke 12:19; 2 Corinthians 1:8–10; 2 Peter 2:12
- 33 Proverbs 13:20; Matthew 24:4; 1 Corinthians 5:6; Proverbs 9:6; Ephesians 5:6
- 34 1 Corinthians 6:5; Hebrews 5:11–12; Romans 13:11; Joel 1:5; Ephesians 5:14
- 35 Ezekiel 37:3; Philippians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 15:38–53; Romans 9:19; John 3:9
- 36 John 12:24; Luke 11:40; Luke 12:20; Ephesians 5:15; Romans 1:22
- 38 1 Corinthians 3:7; Isaiah 61:11; Psalm 104:14; Mark 4:26–29; Genesis 1:11–12
- 39 Genesis 1:20–26
- 41 Deuteronomy 4:19; Psalm 148:3–5; Isaiah 24:23; Job 31:26; Psalm 19:4–6
- 42 Daniel 12:3; Matthew 13:43; Philippians 3:20–21; Romans 8:21; 1 Peter 1:4
- 43 Colossians 3:4; Philippians 3:20–21; 1 Corinthians 6:14; Mark 12:24–25; Matthew 22:29–30
- 44 1 Corinthians 15:50; Luke 24:31; John 20:19; John 20:26
- 45 John 5:21; Genesis 2:7; Romans 8:2; Romans 8:10–11; Romans 5:12–14
- 46 Romans 6:6; Colossians 3:9–10; Ephesians 4:22–24
- 47 John 3:31; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; 2 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 15:45
- 48 Genesis 5:3; Philippians 3:20–21; John 3:6; Romans 5:12–21; Job 14:4
- 49 Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11; Genesis 5:3; 1 John 3:2
- 50 John 3:3–6; Matthew 16:17; Ephesians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Galatians 5:16
- 51 1 Thessalonians 4:14–17; Philippians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 15:20; Ephesians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 4:1
- 52 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17; Matthew 24:31; John 5:28; John 5:25; Isaiah 27:13
- 53 2 Corinthians 5:2–4; 1 John 3:2; Ephesians 4:24; Romans 2:7; Romans 13:12–14
- 54 Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 21:4; Hebrews 2:14–15; Revelation 20:14; Luke 20:36
- 55 Hosea 13:14; Psalm 89:48; Romans 5:14; Acts 2:27; Psalm 49:8–15
- 56 Romans 4:15; Galatians 3:10–13; Romans 6:23; Romans 7:5–13; John 8:24
- 57 2 Corinthians 2:14; Romans 8:37; 1 John 5:4–5; Proverbs 21:31; Revelation 12:11
- 58 Galatians 6:9; 2 Chronicles 15:7; Hebrews 6:10; Philippians 2:16; 1 Corinthians 3:8
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Having finished the discourse of spiritual gifts, he passes to that which is of all most necessary, the subject of the resurrection. For in this too they were greatly unsound.
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… her when she lay outside of the Pleroma as a kind of abortion, they affirm Paul to have declared in his Epistle to the Corinthians [in these words], "And last of all, He appeared to me also, as to one born out of due time." Again, the coming of the Saviour with His attendants to Achamoth is declared in like …
… received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was descending into hell burdened with all the sins that I had committed, both against Thee, myself, and others, many and grievous, over and above that bond of original sin whereby we all die in Adam. For none of these things hadst Thou forgiven me in Christ, neither had He "abolished" …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… of Satan; and how thou art disposed when staying in a Church, and how when sitting in a theatre; and thou wilt see that great is the difference between this soul and that, although both be one. Therefore Paul said, "Evil communications corrupt good manners." For this cause we have need continually of those songs, which serve as charms from …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The Life encountered him, that the mouth of Death might henceforth be stopped, and all we that are saved might say, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)