Part 15

015:033 Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

015:034 Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.

015:035 But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"

015:036 Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;

015:037 and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be) or of something else, and God gives it a body as He has seen fit,

015:038 and to each kind of seed a body of its own.

015:039 All flesh is not the same: there is human flesh, and flesh of cattle, of birds, and of fishes.

015:040 There are bodies which are celestial and there are bodies which are earthly, but the glory of the celestial ones is one thing, and that of the earthly ones is another.

015:041 There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

015:042 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

015:043 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

015:044 an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised. As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also a spiritual body.

015:045 In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

015:046 Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.

015:047 The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.

015:048 What the earthy one is, that also are those who are earthy; and what the heavenly One is, that also are those who are heavenly.

015:049 And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.

015:050 But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable inherit what is imperishable.

015:051 I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

015:052 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incapable of decay, and *we* shall be changed.

015:053 For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe itself with immortality.

015:054 But when this perishable nature has put on what is imperishable, and this mortality has put on immortality, then will the words of Scripture be fulfilled, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

015:055 "Where, O death, is thy victory? Where, O death, is thy sting?"

015:056 Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;

015:057 but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

015:058 Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

016:001 As to the collection for God's people, what I have directed the Churches of Galatia to do, you must do also.

016:002 On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on.