1 Corinthians 15:50

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Cross References

Matthew 16:17

And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.

Matthew 25:34

Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Romans 2:7

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

1 Corinthians 1:12

What I mean is that each of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”

1 Corinthians 15:42

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

1 Corinthians 15:44

It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 6:10

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites,

1 Corinthians 7:29

I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 9:6

The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Galatians 5:16

Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Ephesians 4:17

Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds.

Colossians 2:4

I am saying this so that no one may deceive you with plausible arguments.

2 Timothy 4:18

The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.