Isa 51:16, Joh 7:16-17, 8:38, 17:8, 1Cor 15:3-58 | ESV | STEP | And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand , establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth , and saying to Zion , You are my people .

16 ^aAnd I have put my words in your mouth
^band covered you in the shadow of my hand,
^cestablishing ^{▼▼Or planting} the heavens
and ^elaying the foundations of the earth,
and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

John 7:16-17

16 So Jesus answered them, ^f“My teaching is not mine, but his ^gwho sent me. 17 ^hIf anyone’s will is to do God’s ^{▼▼Greek his} will, ^jhe will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^kam speaking on my own authority.

John 8:38

38 ^lI speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard ^mfrom your father.”

John 17:8

8 For I have given them ⁿthe words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^oI came from you; and ^pthey have believed that you sent me.

1 Corinthians 15:3-58

3 For ^qI delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died ^rfor our sins ^sin accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised ^ton the third day ^uin accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that ^vhe appeared to Cephas, then ^wto the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to ^xJames, then ^yto all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, ^zhe appeared also to me. 9 For ^aaI am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because ^abI persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, ^acI worked harder than any of them, ^adthough it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

The Resurrection of the Dead

12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, ^aehow can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, ^afthen not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that ^aghe raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and ^ahyou are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who ^aihave fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope ^{▼▼Or we have hoped} in this life only, ^akwe are of all people most to be pitied.

20 But in fact ^alChrist has been raised from the dead, ^amthe firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as ^anby a man came death, ^aoby a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For ^apas in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then ^aqat his coming ^arthose who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers ^asthe kingdom to God the Father after destroying ^atevery rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign ^auuntil he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be ^avdestroyed is death. 27 For ^aw“God ^{▼▼Greek he} has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When ^ayall things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that ^azGod may be all in all.

29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf? 30 Why are we ^bain danger every hour? 31 I protest, brothers, by ^bbmy pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, ^bcI die every day! 32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, ^bdI fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, ^be“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33 ^bfDo not be deceived: ^bg“Bad company ruins good morals.” ^{▼▼Probably from Menander’s comedy Thais} 34 ^biWake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For ^bjsome have no knowledge of God. ^bkI say this to your shame.

The Resurrection Body

35 But someone will ask, ^bl“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! ^bmWhat you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

42 ^bnSo is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; ^boit is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, ^bp“The first man Adam became a living being”; ^{▼▼Greek a living soul} ^brthe last Adam became a ^bslife-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 ^btThe first man was from the earth, ^bua man of dust; ^bvthe second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, ^bwso also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just ^bxas we have borne the image of the man of dust, ^bywe shall ^{▼▼Some manuscripts let us} also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Mystery and Victory

50 I tell you this, brothers: ^caflesh and blood ^cbcannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. ^ccWe shall not all sleep, ^cdbut we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For ^cethe trumpet will sound, and ^cfthe dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and ^cgthis mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

^ch“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 ^ci“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and ^cjthe power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, ^ckwho gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 ^clTherefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in ^cmthe work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord ^cnyour labor is not in vain.