Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

So when this corruptible should put on incorruption, and this mortal should put on immortality, then will come to pass the word which was written: "Death was swallowed up in victory."

And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and [some] of the many righteous as the stars forever and ever.

Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

For our citizenship exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

who will transform our lowly body, that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.

[ 3:20] In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the ground out of which you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.

because You will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

and live to the end, [so] that he should not see corruption.

They have laid [them] as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

For You have chosen my soul, that it should not perish; and You have cast all [my] sins behind me.

Because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

foreseeing [this], he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, "that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption."

"And that He raised Him from the dead, no longer being about to return to corruption, thus He has said: 'I will give you the sure decrees of God concerning David.'

"For David indeed in his own generation, having served by the purpose of God, died, and was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.

because even the creation itself shall be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

So when this corruptible should put on incorruption, and this mortal should put on immortality, then will come to pass the word which was written: "Death was swallowed up in victory."

But those who have been counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

into an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,