1 Corinthians 15:42
Good News Translation
This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal.

New Revised Standard Version
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

Contemporary English Version
That's how it will be when our bodies are raised to life. These bodies will die, but the bodies that are raised will live forever.

New American Bible
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

is.

1 Corinthians 15:50-54 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption. . . .

Daniel 12:3 But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.

Matthew 13:43 Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Philippians 3:20,21 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, . . .

in corruption.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Job 17:14 I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Psalm 16:10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 49:9,14 And shall still live unto the end. . . .

Isaiah 38:17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Acts 2:27,31 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. . . .

Acts 13:34-37 And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful. . . .

Romans 1:23 And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things.

Romans 8:21 Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

it is.

1 Corinthians 15:52-54 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed. . . .

Luke 20:35,36 But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives. . . .

1 Peter 1:4 Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

Context
The Resurrection Body
41One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory. 42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption. 43It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness: it shall rise in power.…
Cross References
Daniel 12:3
But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.

Matthew 13:43
Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Romans 2:7
To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

Romans 8:21
Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

1 Corinthians 15:41
One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

1 Corinthians 15:50
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.

Galatians 6:8
For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

1 Corinthians 15:41
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