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45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became 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 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
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The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
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The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of 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.
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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 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.
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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 Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
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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 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, 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 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, 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 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
54 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "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 sting? Hades, where is your victory?"
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“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
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