1 Corinthians 15:50

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now this I say, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

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  • Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
  • Col 2:4 : 4 And this I say, lest anyone should beguile you with enticing words.
  • John 3:3-6 : 3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 And this I say, that the covenant, which was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul, that it should make the promise of no effect.

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    51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

    52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

    53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

    54So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.'

    55'O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?'

  • 1 Cor 15:42-44
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    42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption:

    43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

    44It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

  • 1 Cor 15:48-49
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    48As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.

    49And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

  • 1 Pet 1:23-24
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    23Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

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  • Gal 6:8
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    8For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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    9Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

    10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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    4To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, which does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

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    35But someone will say, 'How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?'

    36Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

    37And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.

    38But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

    39All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of humans, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

    40There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

  • 2 Cor 5:1-4
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    1For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

    2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven:

    3If indeed, being clothed, we shall not be found naked.

    4For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that mortality might be swallowed up by life.

  • John 3:5-6
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    5Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

    6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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    5For this you know, that no sexually immoral, unclean, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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    8So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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    35But those who are counted worthy to attain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

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    21envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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    46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.

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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

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    12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

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    21Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.

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    29That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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    15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

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    16I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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    63It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

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    30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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    19What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

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    58Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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    17For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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    37But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.

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    20For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.