1 Corinthians 15:43–53

⁴³it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory;^p it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.^q

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”^f;^r the last Adam,^s a life-giving spirit.^{t 46}The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.^{u 47}The first man was of the dust of the earth;^v the second man is of heaven.^{w 48}As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.^{x 49}And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,^y so shall we^g bear the image of the heavenly man.^z

⁵⁰I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood^a cannot inherit the kingdom of God,^b nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.^{c 51}Listen, I tell you a mystery:^d We will not all sleep,^e but we will all be changed^f—⁵²in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,^g the dead^h will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³For the perishableⁱ must clothe itself with the imperishable,^j and the mortal with immortality.