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52 In a very short time, no longer than it takes for the eye to close and open, the Christians who have died will be raised. It will happen when the last horn sounds. The dead will be raised never to die again. Then the rest of us who are alive will be changed. 53 Our human bodies made from dust must be changed into a body that cannot be destroyed. Our human bodies that can die must be changed into bodies that will never die. 54 When this that can be destroyed has been changed into that which cannot be destroyed, and when this that does die has been changed into that which cannot die, then it will happen as the Holy Writings said it would happen. They said, “Death has no more power over life.” (A)

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52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,(A) the dead(B) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable(C) must clothe itself with the imperishable,(D) and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[a](E)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 25:8