Behold, I
tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in
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 will be
changed. For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this
mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable body will have
become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is
written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “Death, where is your
sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
The
sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to
God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my
beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work,
because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
51-58
