⁵¹ See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.

²¹ By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

¹⁴ For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

¹⁷ Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

⁷ But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

²⁰ But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

⁶ Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping;

⁹ Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands