45. So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
46. But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual.
47. The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven.
48. As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly, and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly.
49. Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.
50. This I declare, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
52. in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53. For that which is corruptible must clothe itself with incorruptibility, and that which is mortal must clothe itself with immortality.
54. And when this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about:“Death is swallowed up in victory.
55. Where, O death, is your victory?Where, O death, is your sting?”
56. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.