1 Corinthians 15
1 Now, my fellow believers, I want to remind you about the message about Christ that I preached to you. It is the message that you received and that you have continued to trust firmly.
he bhrātaraḥ, yaḥ susaṁvādo mayā yuṣmatsamīpe nivedito yūyañca yaṁ gṛhītavanta āśritavantaśca taṁ puna ryuṣmān vijñāpayāmi|
2 If you keep on firmly [believing] this message that I preached to you, you will be saved {[God] will save you}. If you do not continue to believe it, your believing [in Christ] was (all for nothing/useless)!
yuṣmākaṁ viśvāso yadi vitatho na bhavet tarhi susaṁvādayuktāni mama vākyāni smaratāṁ yuṣmākaṁ tena susaṁvādena paritrāṇaṁ jāyate|
3 The most important part of the message that I received [from the Lord Jesus], and that I told you, was this: Christ died to [take away the guilt] of our sins, as the Scriptures [said that he would do].
yato'haṁ yad yat jñāpitastadanusārāt yuṣmāsu mukhyāṁ yāṁ śikṣāṁ samārpayaṁ seyaṁ, śāstrānusārāt khrīṣṭo'smākaṁ pāpamocanārthaṁ prāṇān tyaktavān,
4 His [dead body] was buried {They buried his [body]}. On the third day [after that], [God] caused him to become alive again, as the Scriptures [said would happen].
śmaśāne sthāpitaśca tṛtīyadine śāstrānusārāt punarutthāpitaḥ|
5 After that, [Christ] was seen by {appeared to} Peter. Then he appeared to [eleven of] the [original] twelve [apostles].
sa cāgre kaiphai tataḥ paraṁ dvādaśaśiṣyebhyo darśanaṁ dattavān|
6 Later he was seen by {appeared to} more than 500 of our fellow believers. Most of those are still living, but some of them have died [EUP].
tataḥ paraṁ pañcaśatādhikasaṁkhyakebhyo bhrātṛbhyo yugapad darśanaṁ dattavān teṣāṁ kecit mahānidrāṁ gatā bahutarāścādyāpi varttante|
7 Then he was seen by {appeared [to]} [his younger brother] James, [who became the leader of the congregation in Jerusalem]. Then he appeared to all of the apostles.
tadanantaraṁ yākūbāya tatpaścāt sarvvebhyaḥ preritebhyo darśanaṁ dattavān|
8 Finally, he was seen by {appeared to} me, but I became an apostle in a way that was very unusual [MET].
sarvvaśeṣe'kālajātatulyo yo'haṁ, so'hamapi tasya darśanaṁ prāptavān|
9 The fact is, I [consider that I] am the least important of the apostles. I do not deserve to be an apostle, because I (persecuted God’s groups of believers/caused God’s groups of believers to suffer) [everywhere I went].
īśvarasya samitiṁ prati daurātmyācaraṇād ahaṁ preritanāma dharttum ayogyastasmāt preritānāṁ madhye kṣudratamaścāsmi|
10 But it is because God acted kindly toward me in ways that I did not deserve that I became what I am now. And his acting kindly toward me produced a great result [LIT], which is that I worked harder [for Christ] than all the other apostles. But it was not that I [was working with my own ability]. Instead, God was helping me in a way I did not deserve.
yādṛśo'smi tādṛśa īśvarasyānugraheṇaivāsmi; aparaṁ māṁ prati tasyānugraho niṣphalo nābhavat, anyebhyaḥ sarvvebhyo mayādhikaḥ śramaḥ kṛtaḥ, kintu sa mayā kṛtastannahi matsahakāriṇeśvarasyānugraheṇaiva|
11 So it does not matter whether it was I [who was preaching or whether it was the other apostles who were preaching]. We all preached [the same message], and that message is what you believed.
ataeva mayā bhavet tai rvā bhavet asmābhistādṛśī vārttā ghoṣyate saiva ca yuṣmābhi rviśvāsena gṛhītā|
12 So now [let me ask you this]: Since [we] have all preached to you that Christ was raised again {that [God] caused Christ to become alive} after he died, (no one among you should be saying that [God] will not cause [believers] to become alive again after they die!/why do some of you say that [God] will not cause [believers] to become alive again after they die?) [RHQ]
mṛtyudaśātaḥ khrīṣṭa utthāpita iti vārttā yadi tamadhi ghoṣyate tarhi mṛtalokānām utthiti rnāstīti vāg yuṣmākaṁ madhye kaiścit kutaḥ kathyate?
13 If [it is true that God] will not cause anyone to become alive again, that situation would mean that Christ was not raised from the dead {[he] did not cause Christ to become alive again}!
mṛtānām utthiti ryadi na bhavet tarhi khrīṣṭo'pi notthāpitaḥ
14 And if Christ was not raised from the dead {if [God] did not cause Christ to become alive again}, then what we preached to you was useless, and your believing [in Christ] is useless.
khrīṣṭaśca yadyanutthāpitaḥ syāt tarhyasmākaṁ ghoṣaṇaṁ vitathaṁ yuṣmākaṁ viśvāso'pi vitathaḥ|
15 [If it is true that] no one will be raised from the dead {[that God] will not cause anyone to become alive again after he dies}, we [(exc)] have been guilty of lying to you about God, because we told you that God caused Christ to become alive again.
vayañceśvarasya mṛṣāsākṣiṇo bhavāmaḥ, yataḥ khrīṣṭa stenotthāpitaḥ iti sākṣyam asmābhirīśvaramadhi dattaṁ kintu mṛtānāmutthiti ryadi na bhavet tarhi sa tena notthāpitaḥ|
16 But if it were really true that no one who has died will be raised {that [God will] not cause anyone who has died to become alive} again, then Christ was not raised {[he] did not cause Christ to become alive} again either!
yato mṛtānāmutthiti ryati na bhavet tarhi khrīṣṭo'pyutthāpitatvaṁ na gataḥ|
17 If it were true that Christ was not raised {that [God] did not cause Christ to become alive} again after he died, you have believed in Christ for nothing, [because] God will still [punish] you for [MTY] your sins.
khrīṣṭasya yadyanutthāpitaḥ syāt tarhi yuṣmākaṁ viśvāso vitathaḥ, yūyam adyāpi svapāpeṣu magnāstiṣṭhatha|
18 And those people who died [EUP] [while they were trusting] in Christ will go to hell. (questioned)
aparaṁ khrīṣṭāśritā ye mānavā mahānidrāṁ gatāste'pi nāśaṁ gatāḥ|
19 In this life [many of us have suffered much for Christ] because we confidently expect [that he will reward us in heaven]. If we have confidently expected this in vain, people should pity us more than they pity anyone else!
khrīṣṭo yadi kevalamihaloke 'smākaṁ pratyāśābhūmiḥ syāt tarhi sarvvamartyebhyo vayameva durbhāgyāḥ|
20 But [the truth is that] Christ has been raised from the dead {that [God] has caused Christ to live again after he had died}, and (that guarantees/because of that, it is certain) [MET] that he will also cause those [believers] who have died [EUP] to become alive again.
idānīṁ khrīṣṭo mṛtyudaśāta utthāpito mahānidrāgatānāṁ madhye prathamaphalasvarūpo jātaśca|
21 What one man, [Adam, did affects us all]. We all die. Similarly, what one man—[Christ]—did [affects us(inc) all]: God will cause [all believers] to become alive again.
yato yadvat mānuṣadvārā mṛtyuḥ prādurbhūtastadvat mānuṣadvārā mṛtānāṁ punarutthitirapi pradurbhūtā|
22 Because of what Adam did, all [of us who are descended] from him die. Similarly, because of what [Christ did], all of us who have a close relationship with him will be brought back to life {[God] will make alive all of us who have a close relationship with Christ}.
ādamā yathā sarvve maraṇādhīnā jātāstathā khrīṣṭena sarvve jīvayiṣyante|
23 But we must all take our turn. [God raised] Christ first [MET]. And when Christ returns, [God will cause] those who belong to Christ to become alive again.
kintvekaikena janena nije nije paryyāya utthātavyaṁ prathamataḥ prathamajātaphalasvarūpena khrīṣṭena, dvitīyatastasyāgamanasamaye khrīṣṭasya lokaiḥ|
24 Then, after Christ has destroyed all [DOU] the evil powers that oppose God, [the world] will end. Then Christ will give to God, his Father, his kingdom to completely rule over it.
tataḥ param anto bhaviṣyati tadānīṁ sa sarvvaṁ śāsanam adhipatitvaṁ parākramañca luptvā svapitarīśvare rājatvaṁ samarpayiṣyati|
25 You must realize that Christ must rule [here on earth] until he has completely defeated [MTY] all his enemies.
yataḥ khrīṣṭasya ripavaḥ sarvve yāvat tena svapādayoradho na nipātayiṣyante tāvat tenaiva rājatvaṁ karttavyaṁ|
26 The last thing that [he] will get rid of is death. [But he certainly will get rid of death, which is like] an enemy [to us].
tena vijetavyo yaḥ śeṣaripuḥ sa mṛtyureva|
27 [In the Scriptures the Psalmist wrote that] God will cause everything to be under Christ’s [authority] [MTY]. But it is clear that the word ‘everything’ here does not include God, because God is the one who will cause everything to be under Christ’s [authority] [MTY].
likhitamāste sarvvāṇi tasya pādayo rvaśīkṛtāni| kintu sarvvāṇyeva tasya vaśīkṛtānītyukte sati sarvvāṇi yena tasya vaśīkṛtāni sa svayaṁ tasya vaśībhūto na jāta iti vyaktaṁ|
28 After everything is put under [the authority of] God’s Son, then Christ will put himself completely under [the authority of] God, the one who gave him that authority. Then God will be completely in control of everything [IDM], everywhere.
sarvveṣu tasya vaśībhūteṣu sarvvāṇi yena putrasya vaśīkṛtāni svayaṁ putro'pi tasya vaśībhūto bhaviṣyati tata īśvaraḥ sarvveṣu sarvva eva bhaviṣyati|
29 [Now think about this: Some among you] are being baptized (OR, are baptizing people) on behalf of those who died [before someone baptized them] (OR, who died [before they became believers]). If, [as some people say, believers] will not be raised [from the dead] {[God] will not cause [believers] to become alive again}, (what is the value in those people doing that?/there is no value in those people doing that!) [RHQ] If [God] will not cause any [believers] to become alive again, it is senseless to be baptized {baptize anyone} on behalf of someone who has died. [RHQ]
aparaṁ paretalokānāṁ vinimayena ye majjyante taiḥ kiṁ lapsyate? yeṣāṁ paretalokānām utthitiḥ kenāpi prakāreṇa na bhaviṣyati teṣāṁ vinimayena kuto majjanamapi tairaṅgīkriyate?
30 Furthermore, [if God will not cause us believers to become alive again], it is [RHQ] very foolish for me and the other apostles to be constantly [putting ourselves] in danger [because we tell people the gospel].
vayamapi kutaḥ pratidaṇḍaṁ prāṇabhītim aṅgīkurmmahe?
31 My fellow believers, every day I [am in danger of] being killed {people killing me}! That is as true as it is that I am pleased with you because of your close relationship with Christ Jesus our Lord.
asmatprabhunā yīśukhrīṣṭena yuṣmatto mama yā ślāghāste tasyāḥ śapathaṁ kṛtvā kathayāmi dine dine'haṁ mṛtyuṁ gacchāmi|
32 [If God will not cause us believers to become alive again after we die], (I will receive no benefit at all [from having opposed those who attacked me so strongly] in Ephesus [city]./what will I gain [from having opposed those who attacked me so strongly] in Ephesus [city]?) [RHQ] They were [fighting me like] wild beasts! If we [believers] will not be raised [from the dead] {If [God] will not cause us [believers] to live again}, we might as well say [as people often say]: “Tomorrow we are going to die, so we might as well enjoy now everything that we can. We might as well feast and get drunk!”
iphiṣanagare vanyapaśubhiḥ sārddhaṁ yadi laukikabhāvāt mayā yuddhaṁ kṛtaṁ tarhi tena mama ko lābhaḥ? mṛtānām utthiti ryadi na bhavet tarhi, kurmmo bhojanapāne'dya śvastu mṛtyu rbhaviṣyati|
33 Do not let [yourselves be deceived by those who say that God will not cause believers to live again] {Do not let [people who say that God will not cause believers to live again] deceive you}. If you associate with evil people [who say such things], they will (influence you to do evil things/destroy your good moral way of living).
ityanena dharmmāt mā bhraṁśadhvaṁ| kusaṁsargeṇa lokānāṁ sadācāro vinaśyati|
34 Start thinking correctly again [about these matters], as you should, and [stop your sinful behavior which has resulted from] your wrong thinking. [I say that] because [it seems that] some among you do not know God, and as a result they [are thinking wrongly]. I say that to make you ashamed.
yūyaṁ yathocitaṁ sacaitanyāstiṣṭhata, pāpaṁ mā kurudhvaṁ, yato yuṣmākaṁ madhya īśvarīyajñānahīnāḥ ke'pi vidyante yuṣmākaṁ trapāyai mayedaṁ gadyate|
35 But some of you are asking, “How will dead people be raised {How will [God] cause dead people to become alive} again? What kind of bodies will they have?”
aparaṁ mṛtalokāḥ katham utthāsyanti? kīdṛśaṁ vā śarīraṁ labdhvā punareṣyantīti vākyaṁ kaścit prakṣyati|
36 [Anyone who asks such questions is] foolish. You [know that] a seed that is planted in the ground must completely change its form [MET] before it sprouts.
he ajña tvayā yad bījam upyate tad yadi na mriyeta tarhi na jīvayiṣyate|
37 A seed, such as a wheat seed, is very different from the plant that sprouts from it.
yayā mūrttyā nirgantavyaṁ sā tvayā nopyate kintu śuṣkaṁ bījameva; tacca godhūmādīnāṁ kimapi bījaṁ bhavituṁ śaknoti|
38 God gives everything that lives the form that he desires. He gives each seed its own form.
īśvareṇeva yathābhilāṣaṁ tasmai mūrtti rdīyate, ekaikasmai bījāya svā svā mūrttireva dīyate|
39 [Similarly], people, animals, birds, and fish all have flesh, but each one has a different kind of flesh.
sarvvāṇi palalāni naikavidhāni santi, manuṣyapaśupakṣimatsyādīnāṁ bhinnarūpāṇi palalāni santi|
40 Also, there are angelic beings in heaven (OR, stars and planets in the sky), and there are people with bodies on the earth. The angelic beings (OR, stars and planets) are beautiful in one way, and people on earth are beautiful in a different way.
aparaṁ svargīyā mūrttayaḥ pārthivā mūrttayaśca vidyante kintu svargīyānām ekarūpaṁ tejaḥ pārthivānāñca tadanyarūpaṁ tejo'sti|
41 The sun is bright in one way, and the moon is bright in a different way, and the stars are bright in a different way. And even the various stars are different from each other in how bright they are.
sūryyasya teja ekavidhaṁ candrasya tejastadanyavidhaṁ tārāṇāñca tejo'nyavidhaṁ, tārāṇāṁ madhye'pi tejasastāratamyaṁ vidyate|
42 And it is the same way [with our bodies. The bodies that we will have when God causes us] to live again after we die [will not be the same as the bodies that we have now] [MET]. [The bodies that we have now] will die and decay. [The new bodies that we will have] will never die.
tatra likhitamāste yathā, ‘ādipuruṣa ādam jīvatprāṇī babhūva,’ kintvantima ādam (khrīṣṭo) jīvanadāyaka ātmā babhūva|
43 We despise [the bodies that we have now], before we die. But our [new bodies] will be glorious. The [bodies that we have before we die] are weak. But our new bodies will be strong.
yad upyate tat tucchaṁ yaccotthāsyati tad gauravānvitaṁ; yad upyate tannirbbalaṁ yaccotthāsyati tat śaktiyuktaṁ|
44 The bodies that we have before we die are natural bodies. But [our new bodies] will be ones that [God’s] Spirit ([controls/gives us]). Just like there are natural bodies, there are bodies that [God’s] Spirit [completely] controls (OR, makes alive).
yat śarīram upyate tat prāṇānāṁ sadma, yacca śarīram utthāsyati tad ātmanaḥ sadma| prāṇasadmasvarūpaṁ śarīraṁ vidyate, ātmasadmasvarūpamapi śarīraṁ vidyate|
45 [In the Scriptures] it is written {we read} that [when] the first man, Adam, [was created], he became a living human being. [Christ later also became a human being]. But [he is different from Adam, because he] became a person who gives us [spiritual] life.
tatra likhitamāste yathā, ādipuruṣa ādam jīvatprāṇī babhūva, kintvantima ādam (khrīṣṭo) jīvanadāyaka ātmā babhūva|
46 But our bodies that God’s Spirit (will completely control/will give us) are not the first bodies that we have. We have our natural bodies first.
ātmasadma na prathamaṁ kintu prāṇasadmaiva tatpaścād ātmasadma|
47 The first man, [Adam], was created {[God] created the first man, Adam} from the dust of the earth. But [Christ], the one who came later, came from heaven.
ādyaḥ puruṣe mṛda utpannatvāt mṛṇmayo dvitīyaśca puruṣaḥ svargād āgataḥ prabhuḥ|
48 Everyone on earth [has a body] like the first man on the earth had. And in heaven, [everyone will have a body like Christ], the man who came from heaven, has.
mṛṇmayo yādṛśa āsīt mṛṇmayāḥ sarvve tādṛśā bhavanti svargīyaśca yādṛśo'sti svargīyāḥ sarvve tādṛśā bhavanti|
49 And just like [God] gave us bodies like the first man on earth had, so we [believers will have bodies] like [Christ] has, who is now in heaven.
mṛṇmayasya rūpaṁ yadvad asmābhi rdhāritaṁ tadvat svargīyasya rūpamapi dhārayiṣyate|
50 My fellow believers, I want you to know that we [(inc)] [SYN] cannot go [to heaven, where] God rules [over everything], with our physical bodies, because our bodies [cannot last forever]. They will die and decay.
he bhrātaraḥ, yuṣmān prati vyāharāmi, īśvarasya rājye raktamāṁsayoradhikāro bhavituṁ na śaknoti, akṣayatve ca kṣayasyādhikāro na bhaviṣyati|
51 But I will tell you something that [God] has not revealed [before]: [Some of] us [believers] will not die [EUP]. However, all of us will be changed {[God] will change all of us}.
paśyatāhaṁ yuṣmabhyaṁ nigūḍhāṁ kathāṁ nivedayāmi|
52 [It will happen] suddenly, as [fast as someone can] blink his eye [MET], when [we hear the sound of God’s] trumpet for the last time. When we hear that trumpet, all [the believers] who have died will come back to life and will have bodies that are changed {that [God] has changed}, bodies that will never decay.
sarvvairasmābhi rmahānidrā na gamiṣyate kintvantimadine tūryyāṁ vāditāyām ekasmin vipale nimiṣaikamadhye sarvvai rūpāntaraṁ gamiṣyate, yatastūrī vādiṣyate, mṛtalokāścākṣayībhūtā utthāsyanti vayañca rūpāntaraṁ gamiṣyāmaḥ|
53 And the [bodies of us who are alive at that time] will [also] be changed {And [God] will [also] change the [bodies of us who are alive at that time]}. These bodies of ours that die and decay must be transformed into [new bodies that] will never die; [it will be like someone] [MET] getting rid of [his old clothes] and putting on [new ones].
yataḥ kṣayaṇīyenaitena śarīreṇākṣayatvaṁ parihitavyaṁ, maraṇādhīnenaitena dehena cāmaratvaṁ parihitavyaṁ|
54 When that happens, what is written {what ([a prophet/Isaiah]) wrote} [in the Scriptures] will come true/happen: [God] will completely get rid of [MET] death. Our dying will no longer have any power to defeat us;
etasmin kṣayaṇīye śarīre 'kṣayatvaṁ gate, etasman maraṇādhīne dehe cāmaratvaṁ gate śāstre likhitaṁ vacanamidaṁ setsyati, yathā, jayena grasyate mṛtyuḥ|
mṛtyo te kaṇṭakaṁ kutra paraloka jayaḥ kka te|| (Hadēs g86)
56 It is because we sin [MET] [that we die, and it is because we] have God’s laws that we [know that we] have sinned.
mṛtyoḥ kaṇṭakaṁ pāpameva pāpasya ca balaṁ vyavasthā|
57 But because of what our Lord Jesus Christ [has done], he enables us to be free [from having to obey God’s laws to be saved and to be free of being afraid to die]. We should thank God for that!
īśvaraśca dhanyo bhavatu yataḥ so'smākaṁ prabhunā yīśukhrīṣṭenāsmān jayayuktān vidhāpayati|
58 So, my fellow believers whom I love, continue to hold strongly to [the things that you believe]. Do not let anything cause you to doubt them. Always be doing enthusiastically the work that the Lord [gives you]. And remember that the work that you do for the Lord is never (in vain/useless), [as it would be if God will not cause us to live again after we die].
ato he mama priyabhrātaraḥ; yūyaṁ susthirā niścalāśca bhavata prabhoḥ sevāyāṁ yuṣmākaṁ pariśramo niṣphalo na bhaviṣyatīti jñātvā prabhoḥ kāryye sadā tatparā bhavata|
