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1 Corinthians 15:51

See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In Context

50Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

52In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:1Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.

1 Corinthians 15:6Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping;

1 Corinthians 15:20But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

Ephesians 3:3How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,

Philippians 3:21By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:36-51

The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,… Read the whole commentary →

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