1 Corinthians 15:42–56

^42fSo is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. ⁴³It is sown in dishonor; ^git 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 body. ⁴⁵Thus it is written, ^h“The first man Adam became a living being”;^{5 i}the last Adam became a ^jlife-giving spirit. ⁴⁶But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. ^47kThe first man was from the earth, ^la man of dust; ^mthe second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, ⁿso also are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹Just ^oas we have borne the image of the man of dust, ^pwe shall⁶ also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Mystery and Victory

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

^x“Death is swallowed up in victory.”

^55y“O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and ^zthe power of sin is the law.