⁴³ it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory;^(A) it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.^(B)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”^[a];^(C) the last Adam,^(D) a life-giving spirit.^{(E) 46} The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.^{(F) 47} The first man was of the dust of the earth;^(G) the second man is of heaven.^{(H) 48} As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.^{(I) 49} And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,^(J) so shall we^[b] bear the image of the heavenly man.^(K)

⁵⁰ I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood^(L) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,^(M) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.^{(N) 51} Listen, I tell you a mystery:^(O) We will not all sleep,^(P) but we will all be changed^(Q)— ⁵² in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,^(R) the dead^(S) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³ For the perishable^(T) must clothe itself with the imperishable,^(U) and the mortal with immortality.