1 Corinthians 15:50

Flesh and blood cannot inherit God's Kingdom; the perishable cannot inherit the imperishable. It matters because the present mortal body must be transformed to enter glory.

Cross-references · 11

• John 3:3–6Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
• Matt 16:17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
• Eph 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
• Gal 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• 1 Cor 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
• Gal 3:17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
• 2 Cor 9:6Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
• 1 Cor 1:12What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
• Col 2:4I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
• 1 Cor 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

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