1 Corinthians 15:49

And as we have worn the likeness of him from the dust, so shall we wear the likeness of him from heaven.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

In Context

48As he was of the dust, so also those who are of the dust; and as was he who was from heaven, so also are the heavenly.

50But this I say, my brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

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Cross References

Romans 8:29And he knew them, previously; and he sealed them with the likeness of the image of his Son; that He might be the first-born of many brothers.

2 Corinthians 4:10For we bear in our body, at all times, the dying of Jesus; that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

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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