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1484 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

28 And when all things shall be subdued unto 43 It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory.
him, then the Son also himself shall be subject It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power.
unto him that put all things under him, that God 44 It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a
may be all in all. spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there
29 Otherwise what shall they do that are bap- is also a spiritual body, as it is written:
tized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at 45 The first man Adam was made into a living
all? why are they then baptized for them? soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.
30 Why also are we in danger every hour? 46 Yet that was not first which is spiritual,
31 I die daily, I protest by your glory, but that which is natural; afterwards that which
brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. is spiritual.
32 If (according to man) I fought with beasts 47 The first man was of the earth, earthly:
at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead the second man, from heaven, heavenly.
rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to mor-
48 Such as is the earthly, such also are the
row we shall die.
earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also
33 Be not seduced: Evil communications cor-
are they that are heavenly.
rupt good manners.
49 Therefore as we have borne the image of
34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have
the earthly, let us bear also the image of the
not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your
heavenly.
shame.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
35 But some man will say: How do the dead
blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: nei-
rise again? or with what manner of body shall
ther shall corruption possess incorruption.
they come?
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall
36 Senseless man, that which thou sowest is
all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be
not quickened, except it die first.
changed.
37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
not the body that shall be; but bare grain, as of
the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound,
wheat, or of some of the rest.
and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and
38 But God giveth it a body as he will: and
we shall be changed.
to every seed its proper body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is 53 For this corruptible must put on incorrup-
the flesh of men, another of beasts, another of tion; and this mortal must put on immortality.
birds, another of fishes. 54 And when this mortal hath put on immor-
40 And there are bodies celestial, and bodies tality, then shall come to pass the saying that is
terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, written: Death is swallowed up in victory.
and another of the terrestrial. 55 O death, where is thy victory? O death,
41 One is the glory of the sun, another the where is thy sting?
glory of the moon, and another the glory of the 56 Now the sting of death is sin: and the
stars. For star differeth from star in glory. power of sin is the law.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is 57 But thanks be to God, who hath given us
sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption. the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.