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.”†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 15:54 in context
1 Corinthians 15:51–57
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Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
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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.
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For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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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.”†
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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