Seven chapter salvation bible study

 

I am making a seven chapter salvation related bible study which will include chapters from Romans and John and also 1 Corinthians 15, the resurrection chapter which explains that our hope is that Jesus did in fact rise from the dead.

My first chapter is Romans chapter 3 which explains that all have fallen short of God’s glory, and that none have done right but people can get the free gift of God through Jesus

(Romans 3:1)  What then is the superiority of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

 

(Romans3:2)  Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

 

(Romans 3:3)  For what if some did not believe? Surely their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God?

 

(Romans 3:4)  Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar, just as it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, and You may overcome when You are judged."

 

(Romans 3:5)  But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Surely God, the One inflicting wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I speak as a man.)

 

(Romans 3:6)  Certainly not! For otherwise how shall God judge the world?

 

(Romans 3:7)  For if by my lie the truth of God has abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

 

(Romans 3:8)  And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come"?--just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just.

 

(Romans 3:9)  What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

 

(Romans 3:10)  Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one,

 

(Romans 3:11)  There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

 

(Romans 3:12)  All have turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not one doing kindness, there is not so much as one."

 

(Romans 3:13)  "Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " the poison of asps is under their lips";

 

(Romans 3:14)  "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

 

(Romans 3:15)  Their feet are swift to shed blood;

 

(Romans 3:16)  Ruin and misery are in their ways;

 

(Romans 3:17)  And the way of peace they did not know.

 

(Romans 3:18)  There is no fear of God before their eyes."

 

(Romans 3:19)  Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

 

(Romans 3:20)  Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

 

(Romans 3:21)  But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,

 

(Romans 3:22)  even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;

 

(Romans 3:23)  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

 

(Romans 3:24)  being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

 

(Romans 3:25)  whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins having previously occurred, in the forbearance of God,

 

(Romans 3:26)  for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

 

(Romans 3:27)  Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

 

(Romans 3:28)  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

 

(Romans 3:29)  Or is He the God of the Jews only? But is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles,

 

(Romans 3:30)  since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

 

(Romans 3:31)  Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

 

Next John chapter 3 states that we must all be born again to see the kingdom of God and heaven, and also God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life in Him all in the powerful discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus, who came to Jesus at night to question Him on things

(John 3:1)  Now there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

 

(John 3:2)  This man came to Him by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."

 

(John 3:3)  Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

 

(John 3:4)  Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born, being old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

 

(John 3:5)  Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

 

(John 3:6)  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

 

(John 3:7)  Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

 

(John 3:8)  "The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit."

 

(John 3:9)  Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"

 

(John 3:10)  Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

 

(John 3:11)  Most assuredly I say to you, that which We know, We speak, and that which We have seen, We bear witness to, and you do not receive Our witness.

 

(John 3:12)  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

 

(John 3:13)  And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

 

(John 3:14)  And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

 

(John 3:15)  that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

 

(John 3:16)  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

 

(John 3:17)  For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

 

(John 3:18)  He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

 

(John 3:19)  And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

 

(John 3:20)  For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

 

(John 3:21)  But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

 

(John 3:22)  After these things Jesus, along with His disciples, came into the land of Judea, and there He was stayed with them and He was baptizing.

 

(John 3:23)  Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salem, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

 

(John 3:24)  For John was not yet cast into prison.

 

(John 3:25)  Then there came to be a dispute between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.

 

(John 3:26)  And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified--behold, this Man is baptizing, and all men are coming to Him!"

 

(John 3:27)  John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

 

(John 3:28)  You yourselves bear witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before Him.'

 

(John 3:29)  "He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore my joy has been fulfilled.

 

(John 3:30)  He must increase, but I must decrease.

 

(John 3:31)  He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

 

(John 3:32)  And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

 

(John 3:33)  He who receives His testimony has certified that God is true.

 

(John 3:34)  For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

 

(John 3:35)  The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

 

(John 3:36)  He who believes in the Son has eternal life; and he who does not believe the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."

 

Romans chapter 5 explains at just the right time Jesus died for the ungodly in the world and that while we were still yet sinners Jesus did indeed die for us bringing redemption of our sins and as a result, salvation

(Romans 5:1)  Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

 

(Romans 5:2)  through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

 

(Romans 5:3)  And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

 

(Romans 5:4)  and endurance, character; and character, hope.

 

(Romans 5:5)  And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

 

(Romans 5:6)  For while we were still weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

 

(Romans 5:7)  For scarcely on behalf of a righteous man will anyone die; yet on behalf of the good, perhaps someone might even dare to die.

 

(Romans 5:8)  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 

(Romans 5:9)  Much more then, having been justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

 

(Romans 5:10)  For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

 

(Romans 5:11)  And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we received the reconciliation.

 

(Romans 5:12)  Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed to all men, because all sinned--

 

(Romans 5:13)  (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

 

(Romans 5:14)  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

 

(Romans 5:15)  But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of one man many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to the many.

 

(Romans 5:16)  And the gift is not as by one having sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift from many offenses resulted in justification.

 

(Romans 5:17)  For if by the offense of the one man death reigned through the one man, much more those receiving the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

 

(Romans 5:18)  Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

 

(Romans 5:19)  For through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One many shall be constituted righteous.

 

(Romans 5:20)  But the law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

 

(Romans 5:21)  so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

John chapter 5, after Jesus heals the guy at the pool He explains He can’t do anything without the Father and that all judgment is given to His hands and the power to raise to life.

(John 5:1)  After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

 

(John 5:2)  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.

 

(John 5:3)  In these porches were lying a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.

 

(John 5:4)  For an angel from time to time descended into the pool and stirred up the water; therefore the first one having gone in after the stirring up of the water, became well of whatever disease he was suffering.

 

(John 5:5)  Now there was certain man there who had an ailment for thirty-eight years.

 

(John 5:6)  When Jesus saw this man lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you wish to become well?"

 

(John 5:7)  The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I do not have a man, so that whenever the water is stirred up, he may put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another descends before me."

 

(John 5:8)  Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your bed and walk."

 

(John 5:9)  And immediately the man became well, and took up his bed, and began to walk. And that day was the Sabbath.

 

(John 5:10)  Therefore the Jews said to the man who was healed, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

 

(John 5:11)  He answered them, "He that made me whole, He said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.' "

 

(John 5:12)  Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?"

 

(John 5:13)  But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had turned aside, while a crowd was in that place.

 

(John 5:14)  After these things Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse may happen to you."

 

(John 5:15)  The man went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the One who had made him well.

 

(John 5:16)  And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, and were seeking to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

 

(John 5:17)  But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I am working."

 

(John 5:18)  Because of this the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but also He called God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

 

(John 5:19)  Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

 

(John 5:20)  For the Father loves the Son, and shows to Him all things which He Himself does; and greater works than these He will show Him, so that you may marvel.

 

(John 5:21)  For as the Father raises up the dead and gives life, thus also the Son gives life to whom He wills.

 

(John 5:22)  For the Father judges no one, but He has given all judgment to the Son,

 

(John 5:23)  so that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

 

(John 5:24)  "Most assuredly I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

 

(John 5:25)  Most assuredly I say to you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those having heard shall live.

 

(John 5:26)  For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself,

 

(John 5:27)  and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

 

(John 5:28)  Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear His voice

 

(John 5:29)  and shall come forth--those who have done good, to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to a resurrection of condemnation.

 

(John 5:30)  I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

 

(John 5:31)  "If I testify of Myself, My testimony is not valid.

 

(John 5:32)  There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony which He testifies concerning Me is true.

 

(John 5:33)  You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

 

(John 5:34)  But I do not receive the testimony from man, but these things I say so that you may be saved.

 

(John 5:35)  He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

 

(John 5:36)  But I have a testimony greater than John's; for the works which the Father gave to Me, that I should complete them, these very works which I do, testify of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

 

(John 5:37)  And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified about Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.

 

(John 5:38)  But you do not have His word abiding in you, because Him whom He sent, Him you do not believe.

 

(John 5:39)  You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about Me.

 

(John 5:40)  But you are unwilling to come to Me, so that you may have life.

 

(John 5:41)  I do not receive glory from men.

 

(John 5:42)  But I have known you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

 

(John 5:43)  I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

 

(John 5:44)  How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and do not seek the glory which is from the only God?

 

(John 5:45)  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you have hoped.

 

(John 5:46)  For if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote about Me.

 

(John 5:47)  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

 

John chapter 10 is where Jesus speaks how He is the door and the good shepherd and His sheep follow Him and how He will give His life for His sheep and give them eternal life.

(John 10:1)  "Most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

 

(John 10:2)  But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

 

(John 10:3)  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out.

 

(John 10:4)  And whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

 

(John 10:5)  But they will by no means follow a stranger, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

 

(John 10:6)  This illustration Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

 

(John 10:7)  Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

 

(John 10:8)  All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

 

(John 10:9)  I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

 

(John 10:10)  The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

 

(John 10:11)  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:12)  But a hired hand, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

 

(John 10:13)  But the hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and is not concerned about the sheep.

 

(John 10:14)  I am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and I am known by My own.

 

(John 10:15)  Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:16)  And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; those also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

 

(John 10:17)  Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again.

 

(John 10:18)  No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I have received from My Father."

 

(John 10:19)  Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

 

(John 10:20)  And many of them said, "He has a demon and is raving mad. Why do you listen to Him?"

 

(John 10:21)  Others said, "These are not the words of one being demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

 

(John 10:22)  Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

 

(John 10:23)  And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's Porch.

 

(John 10:24)  Then the Jews encircled Him and said to Him, "How long will You hold us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."

 

(John 10:25)  Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, these things testify about Me.

 

(John 10:26)  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, just as I said to you.

 

(John 10:27)  My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

 

(John 10:28)  And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

 

(John 10:29)  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.

 

(John 10:30)  I and the Father are one."

 

(John 10:31)  Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

 

(John 10:32)  Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

 

(John 10:33)  The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

 

(John 10:34)  Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

 

(John 10:35)  If He called those gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

 

(John 10:36)  do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

 

(John 10:37)  If I am not doing the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

 

(John 10:38)  but if I am doing them, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

 

(John 10:39)  Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, but He escaped from their hand.

 

(John 10:40)  And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He stayed there.

 

(John 10:41)  And many came to Him and said, "John indeed performed no sign, but everything which John said about this Man was true."

 

(John 10:42)  And many believed in Him there.

 

Romans chapter 10, the chapter which gives the instructions of salvation, which is to confess Jesus as Lord and believe God raised Him from the dead so you will be saved, has other things too, including that we must hear by the word of God

(Romans 10:1)  Brothers, the good pleasure of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is for their salvation.

 

(Romans 10:2)  For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

 

(Romans 10:3)  For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

 

(Romans 10:4)  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.

 

(Romans 10:5)  For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who does those things shall live by them."

 

(Romans 10:6)  But the righteousness of faith says thus, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ down)

 

(Romans 10:7)  or, " 'Who shall descend into the abyss?' " (that is, to bring up Christ from the dead).

 

(Romans 10:8)  But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we proclaim):

 

(Romans 10:9)  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

 

(Romans 10:10)  For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.

 

(Romans 10:11)  For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

 

(Romans 10:12)  For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him.

 

(Romans 10:13)  For "whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."

 

(Romans 10:14)  How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear apart from a preacher?

 

(Romans 10:15)  And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"

 

(Romans 10:16)  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

 

(Romans 10:17)  So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

(Romans 10:18)  But I say, have they not heard? Yes, indeed they have: "Their voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

 

(Romans 10:19)  But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, by an unintelligent nation I will anger you."

 

(Romans 10:20)  But Isaiah is very bold and says: "I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me."

 

(Romans 10:21)  But to Israel he says: "the whole day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

 

1 Corinthians chapter 15 is the resurrection chapter which explains all our hope in our salvation comes from the fact that Jesus did in fact rise up from the dead, for as it explains our hope would be in vain if He had not been raised from His grave after He died and was placed there.

(1 Corinthians 15:1)  Now I made known to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

 

(1 Corinthians 15:2)  through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:3)  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

 

(1 Corinthians 15:4)  and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

 

(1 Corinthians 15:5)  and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:6)  Thereafter He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, of whom the majority remain until now, but some have died.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:7)  Thereafter He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:8)  And last of all, as of one born out of due time, He appeared to me also.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:9)  For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:10)  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:11)  Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:12)  Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

 

(1 Corinthians 15:13)  But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:14)  And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain and your faith also is vain!

 

(1 Corinthians 15:15)  And we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we bore witness concerning God, that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise--if in fact the dead are not raised.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:16)  For if the dead are not raised, then neither has Christ been raised.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:17)  And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins!

 

(1 Corinthians 15:18)  Then also those who have died in Christ have perished.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:19)  If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:20)  But now Christ has been raised from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have died.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:21)  For since by a man death came, also by a Man comes the resurrection of the dead.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:22)  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:23)  But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Christ at His coming.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:24)  Then will be the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He abolishes every ruler and every authority and power.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:25)  For He must reign till He puts all His enemies under His feet.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:26)  The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:27)  For "He has subjected all things under His feet." But when He says that "all things have been subjected," it is evident that this is except for Him who subjected all things to Him.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:28)  Now when all things are made subject to Him, then also the Son Himself will be subjected to Him who subjected all things to Him, in order that God may be all in all.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:29)  Otherwise, what will they do who are being baptized for the dead, if the dead are not raised at all? Why are they also baptized for the dead?

 

(1 Corinthians 15:30)  And why are we also in danger every hour?

 

(1 Corinthians 15:31)  I affirm, by my boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:32)  If, in the manner of men, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the benefit to me? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

 

(1 Corinthians 15:33)  Do not be deceived: "Evil associations corrupts good habits."

 

(1 Corinthians 15:34)  Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:35)  But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"

 

(1 Corinthians 15:36)  Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:37)  And what you sow, you do not sow that body that will be, but a bare grain--perhaps wheat or some other grains.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:38)  But God gives to it a body just as He desired, and to each of the seeds its own body.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:39)  All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is a different kind of flesh for men, and another flesh for beasts, another for fish, and another for birds.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:40)  And there are celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:41)  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:42)  So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:43)  It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:44)  It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:45)  Thus also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living soul;" the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:46)  However, that which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:47)  The first man was from earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:48)  Like the man made of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:49)  And just as we have borne the image of the man made of dust, let us also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:50)  Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:51)  Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed--

 

(1 Corinthians 15:52)  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:53)  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:54)  So when this corruptible should put on incorruption, and this mortal should put on immortality, then will come to pass the word which was written: "Death was swallowed up in victory."

 

(1 Corinthians 15:55)  "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"

 

(1 Corinthians 15:56)  Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:57)  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

(1 Corinthians 15:58)  So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

 

I am sure you have now seen enough now to be ready to pray to be saved. I am now including a short prayer that you can say to ensure that you are saved and have eternal life when you die, going to heaven to be with Jesus forever and not end up going to hell.

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

 

God bless you and yours