a1 Thess. 4:15, 17
bPhil. 3:21
cMatt. 24:31; 1 Thess. 4:16; [Isa. 27:13; Zech. 9:14]
dJohn 5:25, 28; [Luke 20:36]
e[2 Cor. 5:2-4]
fCited from Isa. 25:8; [Heb. 2:14, 15; Rev. 20:14; 21:4]
gHos. 13:14
hRom. 4:15; 5:13; 7:5, 8, 13
i[Rom. 8:37; 1 John 5:4]
j2 Pet. 3:14
kch. 16:10; Jer. 48:10; John 6:28
l[Gal. 6:9]; See ch. 3:8

1 Corinthians 15:51-58

51Behold! I tell you a mystery. aWe shall not all sleep, bbut we shall all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For cthe trumpet will sound, and dthe dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and ethis 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:

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

58 jTherefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in kthe work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord lyour labor is not in vain.

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