American Standard Version of 1901
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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Behold, I tell you a mystery: {Or, We shall not all &c.}We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:
For we know that if the earthly house of our {Or, bodily frame Compare Wisd. 9:15}tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
For indeed we that are in this {Or, bodily frame Compare Wisd. 9:15}tabernacle do groan, {Or, being burdened, in that we would not be unclothed, but would be clothed upon.}being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.
Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.
if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
For as in Adam all die, so also in {Greek: the Christ.}Christ shall all be made alive.
But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ's, at his {Greek: presence.}coming.
if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.
if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.