aDan. 12:3; [Matt. 13:43]
bPhil. 3:21; Col. 3:4
cCited from Gen. 2:7
eRom. 5:14
fJohn 5:21; [John 6:33, 39, 40, 54, 57; Rom. 8:2, 10]
gJohn 3:31
h[Gen. 2:7; 3:19]
iJohn 3:13, 31
j[Phil. 3:20]
kGen. 5:3
lSee Rom. 8:29
nSee Matt. 16:17
o[John 3:3, 5]
p1 Thess. 4:15, 17
qPhil. 3:21
rMatt. 24:31; 1 Thess. 4:16; [Isa. 27:13; Zech. 9:14]
sJohn 5:25, 28; [Luke 20:36]
t[2 Cor. 5:2-4]
uCited from Isa. 25:8; [Heb. 2:14, 15; Rev. 20:14; 21:4]
vHos. 13:14
wRom. 4:15; 5:13; 7:5, 8, 13
x[Rom. 8:37; 1 John 5:4]
y2 Pet. 3:14
zch. 16:10; Jer. 48:10; John 6:28
aa[Gal. 6:9]; See ch. 3:8

1 Corinthians 15:42-58

42 aSo is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonor; bit 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, c“The first man Adam became a living being”; ▼
▼Greek  a living soul
 ethe last Adam became a flife-giving spirit. 46But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 gThe first man was from the earth, ha man of dust; ithe 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, jso also are those who are of heaven. 49Just kas we have borne the image of the man of dust, lwe shall ▼
▼Some manuscripts let us
 also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Mystery and Victory

50I tell you this, brothers: nflesh and blood ocannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Behold! I tell you a mystery. pWe shall not all sleep, qbut we shall all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For rthe trumpet will sound, and sthe dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and tthis 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:

u“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
 55 v“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
 56The sting of death is sin, and wthe power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, xwho gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 yTherefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in zthe work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord aayour labor is not in vain.

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