1 Corinthians 15:42

The body is sown perishable but raised imperishable. It matters because resurrection frees believers' bodies from decay forever.

Cross-references · 17

• Dan 12:3Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
• Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
• Phil 3:20–21For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
• Rom 8:21that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
• 1 Pet 1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
• 1 Cor 15:50–54Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
• Acts 2:27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
• Acts 2:31he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
• Acts 13:34–37“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
• Ps 16:10For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
• Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’
• Rom 1:23and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
• Ps 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
• Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
• Luke 20:35–36But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
• Ps 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

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