²³ and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,

²⁰ And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:

¹⁹ `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs `is' thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

²³ and ye `are' Christ's, and Christ `is' God's.

⁷ The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;

²⁹ and if ye `are' of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

²⁴ and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

¹⁹ for what `is' our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

¹⁵ for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

¹⁶ because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

¹⁷ then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;