1 Corinthians 15:42
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.”
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“So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:”
King James Version · Public Domain“So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 15:42 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Psalms 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Psalms 49:9that he should live on forever and not see decay.
- Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
- Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Daniel 12:3Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
- Matthew 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
- Luke 20:35But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.
- Acts 2:27because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Acts 2:31Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
- Acts 13:34In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
- Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- Romans 8:21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:50Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
- Philippians 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Peter 1:4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
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