Letters to the Churches

But God giueth it a body at his pleasure, euen to euery seede his owne body,

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beastes, and another of fishes, and another of birdes.

There are also heauenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but the glorie of the heauenly is one, and the glorie of the earthly is another.

There is another glorie of the sunne, and another glorie of the moone, and another glorie of the starres: for one starre differeth from another starre in glorie.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The bodie is sowen in corruption, and is raysed in incorruption.

It is sowen in dishonour, and is raysed in glory: it is sowen in weakenesse, and is raysed in power.

It is sowen a naturall body, and is raysed a spirituall body: there is a naturall body, and there is a spirituall body.

As it is also written, The first man Adam was made a liuing soule: and the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.

Howbeit that was not first which is spirituall: but that which is naturall, and afterward that which is spirituall.

The first man is of the earth, earthly: the second man is the Lord from heauen.

As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly: and as is the heauenly, such are they also that are heauenly.

And as we haue borne the image of the earthly, so shall we beare the image of the heauenly.

This say I, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherite the kingdome of God, neither doeth corruption inherite incorruption.

Behold, I shewe you a secret thing, We shall not all sleepe, but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinckling of an eye at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shalbe raysed vp incorruptible, and we shalbe changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortall must put on immortalitie.

So when this corruptible hath put on incorruption, and this mortall hath put on immortalitie, then shalbe brought to passe the saying that is written, Death is swallowed vp into victorie.

O death where is thy sting? O graue where is thy victorie?

The sting of death is sinne: and ye strength of sinne is the Lawe.

But thankes be vnto God, which hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ.

Therefore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, aboundant alwayes in the worke of the Lord, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord.

Concerning the gathering for the Saintes, as I haue ordeined in the Churches of Galatia, so doe ye also.

Euery first day of the weeke, let euery one of you put aside by himselfe, and lay vp as God hath prospered him, that then there be no gatherings when I come.

And when I am come, whomsoeuer ye shall alowe by letters, them will I send to bring your liberalitie vnto Hierusalem.

And if it be meete that I goe also, they shall goe with me.