1 Corinthians 15:42-57
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f So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
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It is sown in dishonor; g it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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Thus it is written, h "The first man Adam became a living being"; i the last Adam became a j life-giving spirit.
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But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
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k The first man was from the earth, l a man of dust; m the second man is from heaven.
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As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, n so also are those who are of heaven.
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Just o as we have borne the image of the man of dust, p we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
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I tell you this, brothers: q flesh and blood r cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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Behold! I tell you a mystery. s We shall not all sleep, t but we shall all be changed,
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in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For u the trumpet will sound, and v the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
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For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and w this mortal body must put on immortality.
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When 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."
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y "O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?"
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The sting of death is sin, and z the power of sin is the law.
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But thanks be to God, a who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Matthew 13:43
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
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Philippians 3:21
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
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John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives the...
John 6:33
For the bread of God is he who comes down from ...
John 6:39 - 40
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I...
John 6:54
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood h...
John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live becaus...
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you f...
Romans 8:10
But if Christ is in you, although the body is d...
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Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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John 3:31
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.
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Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
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John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
John 3:31
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.
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Philippians 3:20
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
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Romans 8:29
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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Matthew 16:17
And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
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John 3:3
Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
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1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
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Philippians 3:21
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
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Matthew 24:31
And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Isaiah 27:13
And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Zechariah 9:14
Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
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John 5:25
Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
John 5:28
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
Luke 20:36
For they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
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2 Corinthians 5:2 - 4
For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling.
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Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
Hebrews 2:14 - 15
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
Revelation 20:14
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
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Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
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Hosea 13:14
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
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Romans 4:15
For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
Romans 5:13
For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Romans 7:5
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:8
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
Romans 7:13
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
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Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
1 John 5:4
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith.
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