46. So what is, at first, not spiritual, but animal, next becomes spiritual.
47. The first man, being earthly, was of the earth; the second man, being heavenly, will be of heaven.
48. Such things as are like the earth are earthly; and such things as are like the heavens are heavenly.
49. And so, just as we have carried the image of what is earthly, let us also carry the image of what is heavenly.
50. Now I say this, brothers, because flesh and blood is not able to possess the kingdom of God; neither will what is corrupt possess what is incorrupt.
51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. Certainly, we shall all rise again, but we shall not all be transformed:
52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise up, incorruptible. And we shall be transformed.