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1 Corinthians 15:53
1 Corinthians 15:53 is verse 53 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
Or clothe itself
King James Version
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
World English Bible
For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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1 Corinthians 15:51–55 · Berean Standard Bible
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Romans 13:12The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Romans 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
2 Corinthians 5:2For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
2 Corinthians 5:3because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
2 Corinthians 5:4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
Galatians 3:27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Ephesians 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
1 John 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.