1 Corinthians 15:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴² So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² So it is with the resurrection of the dead. [The body] that is sown is perishable and decays, but [the body] that is resurrected is imperishable (immune to decay, immortal). [Dan. 12:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

Common English Bible

⁴² It’s the same with the resurrection of the dead: a rotting body is put into the ground, but what is raised won’t ever decay.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² So it is also with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown in corruption shall rise to incorruption.

1 Corinthians 15:42 Cross References

Matthew 13:43

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let anyone with ears listen!

Daniel 12:3

Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

1 Peter 1:4

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

Romans 8:21

that the creation itself will be set free from its enslavement to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Acts 2:31

Foreseeing this, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying, ‘He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh experience corruption.’

Romans 1:23

and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Acts 2:27

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or let your Holy One experience corruption.

Isaiah 38:17

Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness, but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

Psalm 16:10

For you do not give me up to Sheol or let your faithful one see the Pit.

Job 17:14

if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Psalm 49:9

that one should live on forever and never see the Pit.

Romans 2:7

to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life,

1 Corinthians 15:41

There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.

Galatians 6:8

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.