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45 It is written, "The first man Adam became a living person."(Genesis 2:7) The last Adam became a spirit that gives life.
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So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being” ; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
46 What is spiritual did not come first. What is earthly came first. What is spiritual came after that.
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The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
47 The first man came from the dust of the earth. The second man came from heaven.
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The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.
48 Those who belong to the earth are like the one who came from the earth. And those who are spiritual are like the one who came 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 We are like the earthly man. And we will be like 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 Brothers and sisters, here is what I'm telling you. Bodies made of flesh and blood can't share in the kingdom of God. And what dies can't share in what never dies.
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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 Listen! I am telling you a mystery. We will not all 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 That will happen in a flash, as quickly as you can wink an eye. It will happen when the last trumpet sounds. The trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever. And we 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 Our natural bodies don't last forever. They must be dressed with what does last forever. What dies must be dressed with what does not die.
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For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
54 In fact, that is going to happen. What does not last will be dressed with what lasts forever. What dies will be dressed with what does not die. Then what is written will come true. It says, "Death has been swallowed up. It has lost the battle."(Isaiah 25:8)
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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 the battle you thought you were winning? Death, where is your sting?" (Hosea 13:14)
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“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
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