Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
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- WEB who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
- BSB who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
- NKJV who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
- NASB who will transform the body of our lowly condition into conformity with His glorious body, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
- NLT He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
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Quick answer
Christ will transform our lowly bodies to be like his glorious resurrection body, by the same power that subjects all things to him. Final salvation includes the redemption of the body.
Overview
Paul caps the chapter with the believer's bodily hope: the same Lord who is awaited from heaven will conform our frail, mortal bodies to the likeness of his glorified body. This rests on his almighty power, the power by which he will subdue everything to himself. Salvation is thus not escape from the body but its glorious renewal in conformity to the risen Christ.
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- 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
- Col 3:4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
- 1 Cor 15:42–56So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
- Rom 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
- John 11:24–26Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
- Isa 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
- Matt 28:18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
- Matt 17:2And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
- Eph 1:19–20And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
- John 5:25–29Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
- Rev 1:13–20And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
- Rev 1:8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
- Isa 25:8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
- 1 Cor 15:25–28For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
- Rev 20:11–15And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
- Matt 22:29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
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