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45 For the scripture says, "The first man, Adam, was created a living being"; but the last Adam is the 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 It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
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The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
47 The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam 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 was made of earth; those who are of heaven 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 Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness 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 What I mean, friends, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God's Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.
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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 to this secret truth: we shall not all die, but when the last trumpet sounds, we shall all be changed in an instant, as quickly as the blinking of an eye. For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed.
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Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
53 For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die.
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For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
54 So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: "Death is destroyed; victory is complete!"
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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 "Where, Death, is your victory? Where, Death, is your power to hurt?"
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“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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