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45 In fact, the Tanakh says so: Adam, the first man, became a living human being;o but the last "Adam" has become a life-giving Spirit.
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So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being” ; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
46 Note, however, that the body from the Spirit did not come first, but the ordinary human one; the one from the Spirit comes afterwards.
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The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
47 The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
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The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.
48 People born of dust are like the man of dust, and people born from heaven are like the man from heaven;
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As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.
49 and just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so also we will bear the image of the man from heaven.
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And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 Let me say this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, nor can something that decays share in what does not decay.
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I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Look, I will tell you a secret - not all of us will die! But we will all be changed!
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Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52 It will take but a moment, the blink of an eye, at the final shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever, and we too will be changed.
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in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For this material which can decay must be clothed with imperishability, this which is mortal must be clothed with immortality.
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For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
54 When what decays puts on imperishability and what is mortal puts on immortality, then this passage in the Tanakh will be fulfilled: "Death is swallowed up in victory.
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When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 "Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?"
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“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
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