The Way Up Is Down

Building Unshakeable Faith

Beautifully Scarred

Holy Week

Scarcity & Abundance: A Three-Day Journey in God’s Word

Five Mere Christians

Finding Hope: A Journey With Jesus for Women

The Battle of Pride vs. Humility

The Adversity Gospel: Trading Prosperity Promises and Deep Disappointment for Unsinkable Hope

You Are Called: Discover Your God-Given Gifts to Fulfill Your Purpose

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      <div class="chapter ch63" data-usfm="ISA.63">
         <div class="label">63</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Day of Vengeance and Redemption</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Who is this coming from Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">Who is this, robed in splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">striding forward in the greatness of his strength?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">&#8220;It is I, proclaiming victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">mighty to save.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.63.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why are your garments red,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.63.2"><span class="content">like those of one treading the winepress?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.63.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.63.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have trodden the winepress alone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">from the nations no one was with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">I trampled them in my anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">and trod them down in my wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">their blood spattered my garments,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">and I stained all my clothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.63.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It was for me the day of vengeance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.63.4"><span class="content">the year for me to redeem had come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.63.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I looked, but there was no one to help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="content">I was appalled that no one gave support;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="content">so my own arm achieved salvation for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="content">and my own wrath sustained me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I trampled the nations in my anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"><span class="content">in my wrath I made them drunk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"><span class="content">and poured their blood on the ground.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise and Prayer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will tell of the kindnesses of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">the deeds for which he is to be praised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">according to all the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done for us&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">yes, the many good things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">he has done for Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">according to his compassion and many kindnesses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Surely they are my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">children who will be true to me&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">and so he became their Savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In all their distress he too was distressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">and the angel of his presence saved them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">63:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Savior </span><span class="fv">9 </span><span class="fqa">in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">In his love and mercy he redeemed them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">he lifted them up and carried them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">all the days of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet they rebelled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">and grieved his Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">So he turned and became their enemy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">and he himself fought against them.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then his people recalled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">63:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">But may he recall</span></span></span><span class="content"> the days of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">the days of Moses and his people&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">where is he who brought them through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">with the shepherd of his flock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">Where is he who set</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">his Holy Spirit among them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">who sent his glorious arm of power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">to be at Moses&#8217; right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">who divided the waters before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">to gain for himself everlasting renown,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who led them through the depths?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">Like a horse in open country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">they did not stumble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">like cattle that go down to the plain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">they were given rest by the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">This is how you guided your people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">to make for yourself a glorious name.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Look down from heaven and see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">from your lofty throne, holy and glorious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">Where are your zeal and your might?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But you are our Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">though Abraham does not know us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">or Israel acknowledge us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are our Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">our Redeemer from of old is your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you make us wander from your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">and harden our hearts so we do not revere you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">Return for the sake of your servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">the tribes that are your inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For a little while your people possessed your holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="content">but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We are yours from of old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="content">but you have not ruled over them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="content">they have not been called</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">63:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called</span></span></span><span class="content"> by your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch64" data-usfm="ISA.64">
         <div class="label">64</div><div class="q1"><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="content">that the mountains would tremble before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As when fire sets twigs ablaze</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and causes water to boil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">come down to make your name known to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and cause the nations to quake before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="content">you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since ancient times no one has heard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no ear has perceived,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no eye has seen any God besides you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You come to the help of those who gladly do right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">who remember your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">But when we continued to sin against them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">you were angry.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">How then can we be saved?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">All of us have become like one who is unclean,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">we all shrivel up like a leaf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and like the wind our sins sweep us away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one calls on your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">or strives to lay hold of you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">for you have hidden your face from us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">and have given us over to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">64:7 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">have made us melt because of</span></span></span><span class="content"> our sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Yet you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are our Father.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">We are the clay, you are the potter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">we are all the work of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be angry beyond measure, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">do not remember our sins forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">Oh, look on us, we pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">for we are all your people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="content">even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">has been burned with fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">and all that we treasured lies in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After all this, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will you hold yourself back?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="content">Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk1CO">
      <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1CO.15">
         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Resurrection of Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.15.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you at the first</span></span></span><span class="content">: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and that he appeared to Cephas,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content"> and then to the Twelve. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.15.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them&#8212;yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Resurrection of the Dead</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.15.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.15.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The last enemy to be destroyed is death. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For he &#8220;has put everything under his feet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:27 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.8.6">Psalm 8:6</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> Now when it says that &#8220;everything&#8221; has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.15.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I face death every day&#8212;yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us eat and drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"><span class="content">for tomorrow we die.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:32 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.22.13">Isaiah 22:13</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.15.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1CO.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Do not be misled: &#8220;Bad company corrupts good character.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:33 </span><span class="ft">From the Greek poet Menander</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1CO.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God&#8212;I say this to your shame.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Resurrection Body</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1CO.15.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1CO.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But someone will ask, &#8220;How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1CO.15.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1CO.15.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1CO.15.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1CO.15.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1CO.15.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1CO.15.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1CO.15.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1CO.15.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="1CO.15.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1CO.15.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1CO.15.44"><span class="content">If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="1CO.15.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">So it is written: &#8220;The first man Adam became a living being&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:45 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="GEN.2.7">Gen. 2:7</span></span></span></span><span class="content">; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="1CO.15.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="1CO.15.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="1CO.15.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="1CO.15.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:49 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">so let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> bear the image of the heavenly man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="1CO.15.49"></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="1CO.15.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="1CO.15.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="1CO.15.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="1CO.15.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="1CO.15.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: &#8220;Death has been swallowed up in victory.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:54 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.25.8">Isaiah 25:8</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="1CO.15.54"></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="1CO.15.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where, O death, is your victory?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="1CO.15.55"><span class="content">Where, O death, is your sting?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:55 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="HOS.13.14">Hosea 13:14</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="1CO.15.55"></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="1CO.15.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="1CO.15.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="1CO.15.57"></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="1CO.15.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.</span></span></div>
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