You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die. And then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you. And when you die you will become dust again.”
1 Corinthians 15:42 - Easy To Read Version It is the same with the dead people who are raised to life. The body that is “planted” will ruin and decay. But that body is raised to a life that cannot be destroyed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: Common English Bible 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 So it is also with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown in corruption shall rise to incorruption. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption. |
You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die. And then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you. And when you die you will become dust again.”
I might say to the grave,\par ‘You are my father,’\par and to the worms,\par ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister.’\par
Why? Because, Lord, you will not leave\par my soul in the place of death.\par You will not let your faithful one rot\par in the grave. {\cf2\super [88]} \par
Those people are just like sheep.\par The grave will be their pen.\par Death will be their shepherd.\par Then on that morning\par the good people will be the winners\par as the bodies of those \{proud\} people\par slowly rot in the grave,\par far away from their fancy houses.\par
No person will ever get enough money\par to buy the right to live forever,\par and to save his own body\par from rotting in the grave.\par
Look! My troubles are gone!\par I now have peace.\par You love me very much.\par You did not let me rot in the grave.\par \{You forgave all my sins.\}\par You threw my sins far away.\par
The wise people will shine as bright as the sky. The wise people that taught others to live right will shine like stars forever and ever. {\cf2\super [134]}
Then the good people will shine like the sun. They will be in the kingdom of their Father. You people that hear me, listen!
because you will not leave me\par in the place of death. {\cf2\super [31]} \par You will not let the body of your Holy One rot in the grave.\par
David knew this before it happened. That is why David said this about that person:
They gave up the glory of God who lives forever. People traded that glory for the worship of idols {\cf2\super [13]} made to look like earthly people. People traded God’s glory for things that look like birds, animals, and snakes.
Some people live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that cannot be destroyed. Those people live for those things by always continuing to do good. God will give life forever to those people.
That everything God made would be made free from ruin (decay). There was hope that everything God made would have the freedom and glory that belong to God’s children.
The sun has one kind of beauty, the moon has another kind of beauty, and the stars have another. And each star is different in its beauty.
If a person plants (lives) to satisfy his sinful self, then his sinful self will bring him eternal death. But if a person plants to please the Spirit, {\cf2\super [76]} he will get eternal life from the Spirit.
Now we wait to get the blessings God has for his children. Those blessings are kept for you in heaven. Those blessings cannot ruin or be destroyed or lose their beauty.