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If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord's commandment.

For since by a man death came, by a Man also came the resurrection of the dead.

and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

So also it is written: "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING PERSON." The last Adam was a life-giving spirit.

Behold, I am telling you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

All the brothers and sisters greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

who rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

Sufficient for such a person is this punishment which was imposed by the majority,

so that on the other hand, you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a person might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord,

For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:

revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.