^42 (A)So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

⁴³ Then ^(A)the righteous will shine like the sun ^(B)in the kingdom of their Father. ^(C)He who has ears, let him hear.

^3 (A)And those who are wise ^(B)shall shine like the brightness of the sky above;^[a] and ^(C)those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

²¹ that ^(A)the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

⁴ to ^(A)an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and ^(B)unfading, ^(C)kept in heaven for you,

²⁰ But ^(A)our citizenship is in heaven, and ^(B)from it we ^(C)await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will transform ^(D)our lowly body ^(E)to be like his glorious body, ^(F)by the power that enables him even ^(G)to subject all things to himself.

Mystery and Victory

⁵⁰ I tell you this, brothers: ^(A)flesh and blood ^(B)cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹ Behold! I tell you a mystery. ^(C)We shall not all sleep, ^(D)but we shall all be changed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For ^(E)the trumpet will sound, and ^(F)the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and ^(G)this mortal body must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

²³ and ^(A)exchanged the glory of ^(B)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

³⁴ And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, ^(A)(B)no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way,

³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm,

³⁶ For David, after he had ^(E)served the purpose of God in his own generation, ^(F)fell asleep and ^(G)was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, ³⁷ but he whom ^(H)God raised up did not see corruption.