For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe itself with immortality.
and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or beasts or reptiles.
to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;
for all of you who have been baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.
with that new and better self which has been created to resemble God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth.
Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.