42. So it is also with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown in corruption shall rise to incorruption.
43. What is sown in dishonor shall rise to glory. What is sown in weakness shall rise to power.
44. What is sown with an animal body shall rise with a spiritual body. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual one.
45. Just as it was written that the first man, Adam, was made with a living soul, so shall the last Adam be made with a spirit brought back to life.
46. So what is, at first, not spiritual, but animal, next becomes spiritual.
47. The first man, being earthly, was of the earth; the second man, being heavenly, will be of heaven.
48. Such things as are like the earth are earthly; and such things as are like the heavens are heavenly.
49. And so, just as we have carried the image of what is earthly, let us also carry the image of what is heavenly.
50. Now I say this, brothers, because flesh and blood is not able to possess the kingdom of God; neither will what is corrupt possess what is incorrupt.
51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. Certainly, we shall all rise again, but we shall not all be transformed:
52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise up, incorruptible. And we shall be transformed.
53. Thus, it is necessary for this corruptibility to be clothed with incorruptibility, and for this mortality to be clothed with immortality.
54. And when this mortality has been clothed with immortality, then the word that was written shall occur: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55. "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
56. Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57. But thanks be to God, who has given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58. And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.