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title: "1 Corinthians 15 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "Christ's resurrection and ours. The manner of our resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# 1 Corinthians 15

1 Corinthians 15 is chapter 15 of 16 in the First Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 58 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ's resurrection and ours. The manner of our resurrection.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Corinthians 15 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

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.
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.
3. For I handed on to you, first of all, what I also received: that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures;
4. and that he was buried; and that he rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures;
5. and that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.
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.
7. Next, he was seen by James, then by all the Apostles.
8. And last of all, he was seen also by me, as if I were someone born at the wrong time.
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.
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.
11. For whether it is I or they: so we preach, and so you have believed.
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?
13. For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen.
14. And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is useless, and your faith is also useless.
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.
16. For if the dead do not rise again, then neither has Christ risen again.
17. But if Christ has not risen, then your faith is vain; for you would still be in your sins.
18. Then, too, those who have fallen asleep in Christ would have perished.
19. If we have hope in Christ for this life only, then we are more miserable than all men.
20. But now Christ has risen again from the dead, as the first-fruits of those who sleep.
21. For certainly, death came through a man. And so, the resurrection of the dead came through a man
22. And just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be brought to life,
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.
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.
25. For it is necessary for him to reign, until he has set all his enemies under his feet.
26. Lastly, the enemy called death shall be destroyed. For he has subjected all things under his feet. And although he says,
27. “All things have been subjected to him,” without doubt he does not include the One who has subjected all things to him.
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.
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?
30. Why also do we endure trials every hour?
31. Daily I die, by means of your boasting, brothers: you whom I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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.”
33. Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.
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.
35. But someone may say, “How do the dead rise again?” or, “What type of body do they return with?”
36. How foolish! What you sow cannot be brought back to life, unless it first dies.
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.
38. For God gives it a body according to his will, and according to each seed’s proper body.
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.
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.
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.
42. So it is also with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown in corruption shall rise to incorruption.
43. What is sown in dishonor shall rise to glory. What is sown in weakness shall rise to power.
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.
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.
46. So what is, at first, not spiritual, but animal, next becomes spiritual.
47. The first man, being earthly, was of the earth; the second man, being heavenly, will be of heaven.
48. Such things as are like the earth are earthly; and such things as are like the heavens are heavenly.
49. And so, just as we have carried the image of what is earthly, let us also carry the image of what is heavenly.
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.
51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. Certainly, we shall all rise again, but we shall not all be transformed:
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.
53. Thus, it is necessary for this corruptibility to be clothed with incorruptibility, and for this mortality to be clothed with immortality.
54. And when this mortality has been clothed with immortality, then the word that was written shall occur: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55. “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
56. Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57. But thanks be to God, who has given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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.

## 1 Corinthians 15 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Notum autem vobis facio, fratres, Evangelium, quod prædicavi vobis, quod et accepistis, in quo et statis,
2. per quod et salvamini: qua ratione prædicaverim vobis, si tenetis, nisi frustra credidistis.
3. Tradidi enim vobis in primis quod et accepi: quoniam Christus mortuus est pro peccatis nostris secundum Scripturas:
4. et quia sepultus est, et quia resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas:
5. et quia visus est Cephæ, et post hoc undecim:
6. deinde visus est plus quam quingentis fratribus simul: ex quibus multi manent usque adhuc, quidam autem dormierunt:
7. deinde visus est Jacobo, deinde Apostolis omnibus:
8. novissime autem omnium tamquam abortivo, visus est et mihi.
9. Ego enim sum minimus Apostolorum, qui non sum dignus vocari Apostolus, quoniam persecutus sum ecclesiam Dei.
10. Gratia autem Dei sum id quod sum, et gratia ejus in me vacua non fuit, sed abundantius illis omnibus laboravi: non ego autem, sed gratia Dei mecum:
11. sive enim ego, sive illi: sic prædicamus, et sic credidistis.
12. Si autem Christus prædicatur quod resurrexit a mortuis, quomodo quidam dicunt in vobis, quoniam resurrectio mortuorum non est?
13. Si autem resurrectio mortuorum non est: neque Christus resurrexit.
14. Si autem Christus non resurrexit, inanis est ergo prædicatio nostra, inanis est et fides vestra:
15. invenimur autem et falsi testes Dei: quoniam testimonium diximus adversus Deum quod suscitaverit Christum, quem non suscitavit, si mortui non resurgunt.
16. Nam si mortui non resurgunt, neque Christus resurrexit.
17. Quod si Christus non resurrexit, vana est fides vestra: adhuc enim estis in peccatis vestris.
18. Ergo et qui dormierunt in Christo, perierunt.
19. Si in hac vita tantum in Christo sperantes sumus, miserabiliores sumus omnibus hominibus.
20. Nunc autem Christus resurrexit a mortuis primitiæ dormientium,
21. quoniam quidem per hominem mors, et per hominem resurrectio mortuorum.
22. Et sicut in Adam omnes moriuntur, ita et in Christo omnes vivificabuntur.
23. Unusquisque autem in suo ordine, primitiæ Christus: deinde ii qui sunt Christi, qui in adventu ejus crediderunt.
24. Deinde finis: cum tradiderit regnum Deo et Patri, cum evacuaverit omnem principatum, et potestatem, et virtutem.
25. Oportet autem illum regnare donec ponat omnes inimicos sub pedibus ejus.
26. Novissima autem inimica destruetur mors: omnia enim subjecit pedibus ejus. Cum autem dicat:
27. Omnia subjecta sunt ei, sine dubio præter eum qui subjecit ei omnia.
28. Cum autem subjecta fuerint illi omnia: tunc et ipse Filius subjectus erit ei, qui subjecit sibi omnia, ut sit Deus omnia in omnibus.
29. Alioquin quid facient qui baptizantur pro mortuis, si omnino mortui non resurgunt? ut quid et baptizantur pro illis?
30. ut quid et nos periclitamur omni hora?
31. Quotidie morior per vestram gloriam, fratres, quam habeo in Christo Jesu Domino nostro.
32. Si secundum hominem ad bestias pugnavi Ephesi, quid mihi prodest, si mortui non resurgunt? Manducemus, et bibamus, cras enim moriemur.
33. Nolite seduci: corrumpunt mores bonos colloquia mala.
34. Evigilate justi, et nolite peccare: ignorantiam enim Dei quidam habent, ad reverentiam vobis loquor.
35. Sed dicet aliquis: Quomodo resurgunt mortui? qualive corpore venient?
36. Insipiens, tu quod seminas non vivificatur, nisi prius moriatur:
37. et quod seminas, non corpus, quod futurum est, seminas, sed nudum granum, ut puta tritici, aut alicujus ceterorum.
38. Deus autem dat illi corpus sicut vult: ut unicuique seminum proprium corpus.
39. Non omnis caro, eadem caro: sed alia quidem hominum, alia vero pecorum, alia volucrum, alia autem piscium.
40. Et corpora cælestia, et corpora terrestria: sed alia quidem cælestium gloria, alia autem terrestrium.
41. Alia claritas solis, alia claritas lunæ, et alia claritas stellarum. Stella enim a stella differt in claritate:
42. sic et resurrectio mortuorum. Seminatur in corruptione, surget in incorruptione.
43. Seminatur in ignobilitate, surget in gloria: seminatur in infirmitate, surget in virtute:
44. seminatur corpus animale, surget corpus spiritale. Si est corpus animale, est et spiritale, sicut scriptum est:
45. Factus est primus homo Adam in animam viventem, novissimus Adam in spiritum vivificantem.
46. Sed non prius quod spiritale est, sed quod animale: deinde quod spiritale.
47. Primus homo de terra, terrenus: secundus homo de cælo, cælestis.
48. Qualis terrenus, tales et terreni: et qualis cælestis, tales et cælestes.
49. Igitur, sicut portavimus imaginem terreni, portemus et imaginem cælestis.
50. Hoc autem dico, fratres: quia caro et sanguis regnum Dei possidere non possunt: neque corruptio incorruptelam possidebit.
51. Ecce mysterium vobis dico: omnes quidem resurgemus, sed non omnes immutabimur.
52. In momento, in ictu oculi, in novissima tuba: canet enim tuba, et mortui resurgent incorrupti: et nos immutabimur.
53. Oportet enim corruptibile hoc induere incorruptionem: et mortale hoc induere immortalitatem.
54. Cum autem mortale hoc induerit immortalitatem, tunc fiet sermo, qui scriptus est: Absorpta est mors in victoria.
55. Ubi est mors victoria tua? ubi est mors stimulus tuus?
56. Stimulus autem mortis peccatum est: virtus vero peccati lex.
57. Deo autem gratias, qui dedit nobis victoriam per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum.
58. Itaque fratres mei dilecti, stabiles estote, et immobiles: abundantes in opere Domini semper, scientes quod labor vester non est inanis in Domino.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 186: I. the Creeds ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 601: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 624: Jesus Christ Was Buried ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 639: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 652: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 642: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 627: Jesus Christ Was Buried ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 857: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 659: "He Ascended Into Heaven and Is Seated At the Right Hand of the Father" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 752: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 991: "I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 996: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 651: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 632: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 655: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 411: The Fall ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 668: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2855: The Final Doxology ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 954: The Communion of Saints ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1008: Dying in Christ Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 130: The Canon of Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 671: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 674: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1130: The Sacraments of Eternal Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1326: The Eucharist - Source and Summit of Ecclesial Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2550: "I Want to See God" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2804: The Seven Petitions ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 999: Christ's Resurrection and Ours ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 646: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1683: The Christian's Last Passover ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 364: Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 504: "Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 602: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many.” — St. Patrick, Confessio, 1, c. 450 (On this theme: verse 9)
- “Our bodies, receiving the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, having the hope of the resurrection to eternity.” — St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, V.2.3, c. 180 (On this theme: verse 53)
- “Christ is risen, and life reigns! Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave!” — St. John Chrysostom, Paschal Homily, c. 400 (On this theme: verse 55)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 28: That is, the Son will be subject to the Father, according to his human nature, even after the general resurrection; and also the whole mystical body of Christ will be entirely subject to God, obeying him in every thing.
- Verse 29: Some think the apostle here alludes to a ceremony then in use; but others, more probably, to the prayers and penitential labours, performed by the primitive Christians for the souls of the faithful departed; or to the baptism of afflictions and sufferings undergone for sinners spiritually dead.
- Verse 32: “Let us eat and drink” … That is, if we did not believe that we were to rise again from the dead, we might live like the impious and wicked, who have no belief in the resurrection.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Nov 22, 2026: The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe — Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28
- Mon, May 3, 2027: Sts. Philip and James, Apostles — First Reading, 1 Corinthians 15:1-8
- Sun, Aug 15, 2027 (computed): Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 15:20-27
- Sun, Feb 6, 2028 (computed): Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

7 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).