1 Corinthians 15:50–58

VICTORIOUS RESURRECTION

⁵⁰What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: Flesh^o and blood^p cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption. ⁵¹Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, ⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.^q For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. ⁵³For this corruptible body must be clothed^r with incorruptibility,^s and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality. ⁵⁴When this corruptible body is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place:

Death has been swallowed up^t in victory.^Au

⁵⁵Where, death, is your victory?

Where, death, is your sting?^Bv

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin^w is the law.^{x 57}But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory^y through our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁵⁸Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work,^z because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.