⁴³It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one. ⁴⁵Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit. ⁴⁶But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual: ⁴⁷the first man out of the earth, made of dust; the second man, out of heaven. ⁴⁸Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly one, such also the heavenly ones. ⁴⁹And as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly one. ⁵⁰But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.

⁵¹Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵²in an instant, 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. ⁵³For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.

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