1 Corinthiens 15
1 Je vous rappelle, frères, l'Evangile que je vous ai annoncé, que vous avez reçu, dans lequel vous avez persévéré,
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.
2 et par lequel aussi vous êtes sauvés, si vous le retenez tel que je vous l'ai annoncé; à moins que vous n'ayez cru en vain.
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)!
3 Je vous ai enseigné avant tout, comme je l'ai appris moi-même, que le Christ est mort pour nos péchés, conformément aux Ecritures;
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].
4 qu'il a été enseveli et qu'il est ressuscité le troisième jour, conformément aux Ecritures;
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].
5 et qu'il est apparu à Céphas, puis aux Douze.
After that, [Christ] was seen by {appeared to} Peter. Then he appeared to [eleven of] the [original] twelve [apostles].
6 Après cela, il est apparu en une seule fois à plus de cinq cents frères, dont la plupart sont encore vivants, et quelques-uns se sont endormis.
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].
7 Ensuite il est apparu à Jacques, puis à tous les apôtres.
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.
8 Après eux tous, il m'est aussi apparu à moi, comme à l'avorton.
Finally, he was seen by {appeared to} me, but I became an apostle in a way that was very unusual [MET].
9 Car je suis le moindre des Apôtres, moi qui ne suis pas digne d'être appelé apôtre, parce que j'ai persécuté l'Eglise de Dieu.
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].
10 C'est par la grâce de Dieu que je suis ce que je suis, et sa grâce envers moi n'a pas été vaine; loin de là, j'ai travaillé plus qu'eux tous, non pas moi pourtant, mais la grâce de Dieu qui est avec moi.
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.
11 Ainsi donc, soit moi, soit eux, voilà ce que nous prêchons, et voilà ce que vous avez cru.
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.
12 Or, si l'on prêche que le Christ est ressuscité des morts, comment quelques-uns parmi vous disent-ils qu'il n'y a point de résurrection des morts?
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]
13 S'il n'y a point de résurrection des morts, le Christ non plus n'est pas ressuscité.
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}!
14 Et si le Christ n'est pas ressuscité, notre prédication est donc vaine, vaine aussi est votre foi.
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.
15 Il se trouve même que nous sommes de faux témoins à l'égard de Dieu, puisque nous avons témoigné contre lui qu'il a ressuscité le Christ, tandis qu'il ne l'aurait pas ressuscité, s'il est vrai que les morts ne ressuscitent pas.
[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.
16 Car si les morts ne ressuscitent pas, le Christ non plus n'est pas ressuscité.
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!
17 Et si le Christ n'est pas ressuscité, votre foi est vaine, vous êtes encore dans vos péchés,
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.
18 et par conséquent aussi, ceux qui se sont endormis dans le Christ sont perdus.
And those people who died [EUP] [while they were trusting] in Christ will go to hell. (questioned)
19 Si nous n'avons d'espérance dans le Christ que pour cette vie seulement, nous sommes les plus malheureux de tous les hommes.
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!
20 Mais maintenant le Christ est ressuscité des morts, il est les prémices de ceux qui se sont endormis.
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.
21 Car, puisque par un homme est venue la mort, c'est par un homme aussi que vient la résurrection des morts.
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.
22 Et comme tous meurent en Adam, de même aussi tous seront vivifiés dans le Christ,
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}.
23 mais chacun en son rang: comme prémices le Christ, ensuite ceux qui appartiennent au Christ, lors de son avènement.
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.
24 Puis ce sera la fin, quand il remettra le royaume à Dieu et au Père, après avoir anéanti toute principauté, toute puissance et toute force.
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.
25 Car il faut qu'il règne: " jusqu'à ce qu'il ait mis tous ses ennemis sous ses pieds. "
You must realize that Christ must rule [here on earth] until he has completely defeated [MTY] all his enemies.
26 Le dernier ennemi qui sera détruit, c'est la mort,
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].
27 car Dieu " a tout mis sous ses pieds. " Mais lorsque l'Ecriture dit que tout lui a été soumis, il est évident que celui-là est excepté, qui lui a soumis toutes choses.
[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].
28 Et lorsque tout lui aura été soumis, alors le Fils lui-même fera hommage à celui qui lui aura soumis toutes choses, afin que Dieu soit tout en tous.
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.
29 Autrement, que feraient ceux qui se font baptiser pour les morts? Si les morts ne ressuscitent en aucune manière, pourquoi se font-ils baptiser pour eux?
[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]
30 Et nous-mêmes, pourquoi sommes-nous à toute heure en péril?
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].
31 Chaque jour je suis exposé à la mort, aussi vrai, mes frères, que vous êtes ma gloire en Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur.
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.
32 Si c'est avec des vues humaines que j'ai combattu contre les bêtes à Ephèse, quel avantage m'en revient-il? Si les morts ne ressuscitent pas, " mangeons et buvons, car demain nous mourrons. "
[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!”
33 Ne vous laissez pas séduire: " les mauvaises compagnies corrompent les bonnes mœurs. "
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).
34 Revenez à vous-mêmes, sérieusement, et ne péchez point; car il y en a qui sont dans l'ignorance de Dieu, je le dis à votre honte.
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.
35 Mais, dira quelqu'un: Comment les morts ressuscitent-ils? avec quel corps reviennent-ils?
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?”
36 Insensé! ce que tu sèmes ne reprend pas vie, s'il ne meurt auparavant.
[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.
37 Et ce que tu sèmes, ce n'est pas le corps qui sera un jour; c'est un simple grain, soit de blé, soit de quelque autre semence:
A seed, such as a wheat seed, is very different from the plant that sprouts from it.
38 mais Dieu lui donne un corps comme il l'a voulu, et à chaque semence il donne le corps qui lui est propre.
God gives everything that lives the form that he desires. He gives each seed its own form.
39 Toute chair n'est pas la même chair; autre est la chair des hommes, autre celle des quadrupèdes, autre celle des oiseaux, autre celle des poissons.
[Similarly], people, animals, birds, and fish all have flesh, but each one has a different kind of flesh.
40 Il y a aussi des corps célestes et des corps terrestres; mais l'éclat des corps célestes est d'une autre nature que celui des corps terrestres:
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.
41 autre est l'éclat du soleil, autre l'éclat de la lune, et autre l'éclat des étoiles; même une étoile diffère en éclat d'une autre étoile.
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.
42 Ainsi en est-il pour la résurrection des morts. Semé dans la corruption, le corps ressuscite, incorruptible;
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.
43 semé dans l'ignominie, il ressuscite glorieux; semé dans la faiblesse, il ressuscite plein de force;
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.
44 semé corps animal, il ressuscite corps spirituel. S'il y a un corps animal, il y aussi un corps spirituel.
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).
45 C'est en ce sens qu'il est écrit: " Le premier homme, Adam, a été fait âme vivante "; le dernier Adam a été fait esprit vivifiant.
[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.
46 Mais ce n'est pas ce qui est spirituel qui a été fait d'abord, c'est ce qui est animal; ce qui est spirituel vient ensuite.
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.
47 Le premier homme, tiré de la terre, est terrestre; le second vient du ciel.
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.
48 Tel est le terrestre, tels sont aussi les terrestres; et tel est le céleste, tels sont aussi les célestes.
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.
49 Et de même que nous avons porté l'image du terrestre, nous porterons aussi l'image du céleste.
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.
50 Ce que j'affirme, frères, c'est que ni la chair ni le sang ne peuvent hériter le royaume de Dieu, et que la corruption n'héritera pas l'incorruptibilité.
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.
51 Voici un mystère que je vous révèle: Nous ne nous endormirons pas tous, mais tous nous serons changés,
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}.
52 en un instant, en un clin d'œil, au son de la dernière trompette, car la trompette retentira et les morts ressusciteront incorruptibles, et nous, nous serons changés.
[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.
53 Car il faut que ce corps corruptible revête l'incorruptibilité, et que ce corps mortel revête l'immortalité.
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].
54 Lorsque ce corps corruptible aura revêtu l'incorruptibilité, et que ce corps mortel aura revêtu l'immortalité, alors s'accomplira la parole qui est écrite: " La mort a été engloutie pour la victoire. "
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;
Death [APO] will not win a victory over us. Death will not be able to hurt us. (Hadēs g86)
56 Or l'aiguillon de la mort, c'est le péché et la puissance du péché, c'est la loi.
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.
57 Mais grâces soient rendues à Dieu, qui nous a donné la victoire par Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ!
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!
58 Ainsi, mes frères bien-aimés, soyez fermes, inébranlables, travaillant de plus en plus à l'œuvre du Seigneur, sachant que votre travail n'est pas vain dans le Seigneur.
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].
