May 12 – Lessons That Last

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for.

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Today, May 12th, lessons that
last.

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Be honest.
When someone corrects you,

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what’s your first instinct?
Do you get defensive?

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Do you shut down?
Do you brush it off and pretend

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it didn’t happen?
Most of us don’t love being told

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we got something wrong.
It stings a little, even when

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the person saying it actually
cares about us.

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But here’s what’s wild The
lessons we try hardest to avoid

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are often the ones that shape us
the most.

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Proverbs chapter 15, verses 32
to 33 puts it plainly.

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Whoever ignores instruction
despises himself.

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But he who listens to reproof
gains intelligence.

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The fear of the Lord teaches a
man wisdom and humility comes

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before honor.
That word despises is strong,

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isn’t it?
But think about it.

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When you refuse to learn, when
you dismiss correction and keep

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repeating the same patterns,
you’re actually working against

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yourself.
You’re blocking your own growth.

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On the flip side, the person who
can receive guidance even when

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it’s uncomfortable is quietly
building something real.

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Wisdom, character, the kind of
inner strength that doesn’t

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crumble under pressure.
And notice that humility comes

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before honor, not alongside it,
before it.

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That’s the sequence God
establishes.

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You don’t get to skip the
learning curve and go straight

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to the reward.
The humble, teachable, sometimes

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hard season is what prepares you
for what comes next.

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Now, First Corinthians chapter
15 takes everything up to a much

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bigger scale.
Verse 22 reminds us that through

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Christ’s resurrection, death has
been defeated and we are given

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new life in Him.
And verse 58 says so.

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Then, my beloved brethren, be
steadfast, immovable, always

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abounding in the work of the
Lord, knowing that in the Lord

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your labor is not in vain, not
in vain.

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Let that sit with you for a
moment.

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There are probably things in
your life right now that feel

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pointless.
The effort you’re putting in

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that nobody seems to notice.
The choice you made to do the

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right thing that didn’t get you
any credit.

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The time you spent being kind to
someone who didn’t even say

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thank you.
It can feel like you’re pouring

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into something that has no
bottom.

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But God says no.
It counts.

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Every bit of it counts because
the resurrection of Jesus

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changes the entire equation.
If death itself doesn’t have the

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final word, then neither does
failure, discouragement, or

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feeling unseen.
Every small act of faithfulness.

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Every moment you chose to listen
and learn instead of harden and

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resist.
Every time you got back up after

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a set back.
It’s all part of something God

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is building in you that has
eternal weight.

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That means today’s correction
isn’t punishment, it’s

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preparation.
That difficult teacher, that

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hard conversation with a parent,
That failure you’re embarrassed

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about.
God is using all of it not to

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break you down, but to build you
up into someone who can handle

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what He has ahead.
So the next time life hands you

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a lesson you didn’t sign up for,
try to resist the urge to just

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escape it.
Ask instead, What is God trying

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to teach me here?
What is He developing in me

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through this?
Because He wastes nothing.

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And your willingness to stay
humble and keep learning is one

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of the most powerful things you
can do.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank You for

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the lessons You bring into my
life, even the ones that are

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uncomfortable or hard to
receive.

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Help me to stay humble, to
listen well, and to trust that

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You are shaping me with purpose.
On the days when my efforts feel

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invisible or pointless, remind
me that my labor for You is

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never in vain.
Because of Jesus resurrection, I

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have hoped that nothing I do in
faith is wasted.

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Give me the strength to stay
steadfast, keep going and grow

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in wisdom every single day in
Jesus name, Amen.

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Proverbs chapter 15, verses 32

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to 33 World English Bible.
He who refuses correction

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despises his own soul, but he
who listens to reproof gets

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understanding.
The fear of Yahweh teaches

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wisdom before honor is humility.
First Corinthians Chapter 15

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World English Bible Now I
declare to you, brothers, the

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good news which I preach to you,
which also you received, in

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which you also stand, by which
also you are saved, if you hold

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firmly the Word which I preach
to you, unless you believed in

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vain.
For I delivered to you first of

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all that which I also received,
that Christ died for our sins

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according to the Scriptures,
that He was buried, that He was

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raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures, and

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that he appeared to Sepha’s,
then to the 12.

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Then he appeared to over 500
brothers at once, most of whom

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remain until now, but some have
also fallen asleep.

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Then he appeared to James, then
to all the apostles, and last of

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all, as to the child born at the
wrong time, He appeared to me

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also.
For I am the least of the

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apostles who is not worthy to be
called an apostle, because I

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persecuted the Assembly of God.
But by the grace of God I am

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what I am.
His grace which was given to me

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was not futile, but I worked
more than all of them.

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Yet not I, but the grace of God
which was with me.

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Whether then it is I or they.
So we preach, and so you

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believed.
Now if Christ is preached that

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He has been raised from the
dead, how do some among you say

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that there is no resurrection of
the dead?

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But if there is no resurrection
of the dead, neither has Christ

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been raised.
If Christ has not been raised,

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then our preaching is in vain,
and your faith also is in vain.

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Yes, we are also found false
witnesses of God, because we

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testified about God that He
raised up Christ, whom He didn’t

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raise up.
If it is so that the dead are

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not raised.
For if the dead aren’t raised,

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neither has Christ been raised.
If Christ has not been raised,

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your faith is vain, you are
still in your sins.

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Then they also who are fallen
asleep in Christ have perished.

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If we have only hoped in Christ
in this life we are of all men

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most pitiable.
But now Christ has been raised

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from the dead.
He became the first fruits of

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those who are asleep.
For since death came by man, the

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resurrection of the dead also
came by man.

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For as in Adam all die, so also
in Christ all will be made

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alive, but each in his own
order.

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Christ the first fruits, then
those who are Christ S at His

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coming.
Then the end comes, when He will

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deliver up the Kingdom to God,
even the Father, when He will

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have abolished all rule and all
authority and power.

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For He must reign until he has
put all his enemies under his

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feet.
The last enemy that will be

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abolished is death, For He put
all things in subjection under

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his feet.
But when he says all things are

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put in subjection, it is evident
that He is accepted.

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Who subjected all things to him?
When all things have been

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subjected to him, then the Son
will also himself be subjected

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to him.
Who subjected all things to him,

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that God may be All in all.
Or else what will they do?

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Who are baptized for the dead?
If the dead aren’t raised at

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all, why then are they baptized
for the dead?

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Why do we also stand in jeopardy
every hour?

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I affirm by the boasting in you,
which I have in Christ Jesus our

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Lord, I die daily.
If I fought with animals at

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Ephesus for human purposes, what
does it profit me?

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If the dead are not raised, then
let’s eat and drink, for

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tomorrow we die.
Don’t be deceived.

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Evil companionships corrupt good
morals.

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Wake up righteously and don’t
sin, for some have no knowledge

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of God.
I say this to your shame, but

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someone will say, How are the
dead raised, and with what kind

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of body do they come, you
foolish one?

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That which you yourself sow is
not made alive unless it dies.

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That which you sow you don’t sow
the body that will be but a bare

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grain, maybe of wheat, or of
some other kind.

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But God gives it a body even as
it pleased Him, and to each seed

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a body of its own.
All flesh is not the same flesh,

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but there is one flesh of men,
another flesh of animals,

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another of fish, and another of
birds.

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There are also celestial bodies
and terrestrial bodies, but the

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glory of the celestial differs
from that of the terrestrial.

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There is one glory of the sun,
another glory of the moon, and

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another glory of the stars.
For one star differs from

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another star in glory.
So also is the resurrection of

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the dead.
The body is sown perishable.

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It is raised in perishable, it
is sown in dishonor.

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It is raised in glory.
It is sown in weakness, it is

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raised in power, it is sown a
natural body, it is raised a

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spiritual body.
There is a natural body and

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there is also a spiritual body.
So also it is written.

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The first man, Adam became a
living soul.

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The last Adam became a life
giving spirit.

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However, that which is spiritual
isn’t first, but that which is

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natural.
Then that which is spiritual.

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The first man is of the earth
made of dust.

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The second man is the Lord from
heaven, as is the one made of

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dust.
Such are those who are also made

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of dust, and as is the heavenly,
such are they also that are

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heavenly.
As we have borne the image of

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those made of dust, let’s also
bear the image of the heavenly.

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Now I say this, brothers, that
flesh and blood can’t inherit

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God’s Kingdom, neither does the
perishable inherit imperishable.

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Behold, I tell you a mystery.
We will not all sleep, but we

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will all be changed in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at

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the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and

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the dead will be raised
incorruptible, and we will be

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changed.
For this perishable body must

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become imperishable, and this
mortal must put on immortality.

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But when this perishable body
will have become imperishable,

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and this mortal will have put on
immortality, then what is

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written will happen.
Death is swallowed up in

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victory.
Death, where is your sting?

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Hades, where is your victory?
The sting of death is sin, and

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the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives

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us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.

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Therefore, my beloved brothers,
be steadfast, immovable, always

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abounding in the Lord’s work,
because you know that your labor

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is not in vain in the.
Lord, thanks for joining us on

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