is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;
015:043 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown
in weakness, it is raised in power;
015:044 an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised.
As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also
a spiritual body.
015:045 In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became
a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.
015:046 Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first,
but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.
015:047 The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man
is from Heaven.
015:048 What the earthy one is, that also are those who are earthy;
and what the heavenly One is, that also are those who are heavenly.
015:049 And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us
see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.
015:050 But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot
inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable
inherit what is imperishable.
015:051 I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed,
015:052 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding
of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead
will be raised incapable of decay, and *we* shall be changed.
015:053 For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself
with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe
itself with immortality.
015:054 But when this perishable nature has put on what is imperishable,
and this mortality has put on immortality, then will the words
of Scripture be fulfilled, "Death has been swallowed