46. However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
47. The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
48. Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.
49. And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50. Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51. Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed –
52. in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
54. Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55. “Where, O death, is your victory?Where, O death, is your sting?”
56. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!