47. The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
48. As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49. As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.
50. Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
53. For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54. But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55. “Death, where is your sting?Sheol, where is your victory?”
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 Yeshua the Messiah.
58. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.