1 Corinthians 15:44-53

44What we bury in the ground is a human body. But the body that God raises up is a spiritual body. There is a human body that belongs to this earth. So there also has to be a spiritual body that belongs to heaven.

45It says in the Bible, ‘The first man, Adam, became a person who received life.’ But Christ is like the last Adam. He is a spirit who gives life to people.

46The spiritual body does not come first. No, what is human comes first. Then, after that, what is spiritual comes.

47God used soil from the ground to make the first man, Adam. But the second man came from heaven.

48People who live on the earth have bodies like the first man. That is the man that God made from the soil of the earth. People in heaven have bodies like the man who came from heaven.

49Now God has given us bodies that look like the first man. One day we will have bodies that look like the man who belongs in heaven.

50I tell you this, my Christian friends. Our weak human bodies cannot go to heaven, to join God in his kingdom there. Our human bodies will die. They cannot share in something that will continue for ever.

51Listen to me. I will explain a great secret to you. Not all of us will die, but God will change all of us.

52It will happen in a short moment, when the last trumpet makes a sound. When that trumpet makes its sound, God will raise up the believers who have died. He will give them bodies that can never die. In that way, he will change all of us.

53That has to happen. Our bodies that are becoming spoiled must change. They must change into bodies that never become spoiled. Our bodies that are dying must change into bodies that will never die.