1 Corinthians 15:53

Good News Translation

For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
This body that ruins must clothe itself with something that will never ruin. And this body that dies must clothe itself with something that will never die.

Revised Standard Version
For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For this corruptible must put on incorruptibilite: and this mortall must put on immortalite.

Hebrew Names Version
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

New American Standard Bible
For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

New Century Version
This body that can be destroyed must clothe itself with something that can never be destroyed. And this body that dies must clothe itself with something that can never die.

Update Bible Version
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Webster's Bible Translation
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.

English Standard Version
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

World English Bible
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.

Weymouth's New Testament
For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe itself with immortality.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For it byhoueth this corruptible thing to clothe vncorrupcioun, and this deedli thing to putte awei vndeedlinesse.

English Revised Version
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Berean Standard Bible
For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

Contemporary English Version
Our dead and decaying bodies will be changed into bodies that won't die or decay.

Amplified Bible
For this perishable [part of us] must put on the imperishable [nature], and this mortal [part of us that is capable of dying] must put on immortality [which is freedom from death].

American Standard Version
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Bible in Basic English
For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

Complete Jewish Bible
For this material which can decay must be clothed with imperishability, this which is mortal must be clothed with immortality.

Darby Translation
For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.

International Standard Version
For what is decaying must put on what cannot decay, and what is dying must put on what cannot die.2 Corinthians 5:4;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For this which is corruptible shall put on incorruption, and likewise (this) which dieth shall put on immortality.

Murdock Translation
For this which is corruptible, is to put on incorruption; and that which dieth, will put on immortality.

King James Version (1611)
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortall must put on immortalitie.

New Living Translation
For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.

New Life Bible
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.

New Revised Standard
For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortall must put on immortalitie.

George Lamsa Translation
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For this corruptible must needs clothe itself with incorruptibility, and this mortal, clothe itself, with immortality.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For this corruptible, must put on incorruption, and this mortall [must] put on immortalitie.

Christian Standard Bible®
For this corruptible body must be clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality.

King James Version
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Lexham English Bible
For it is necessary for this perishable body to put on incorruptibility, and this mortal body to put on immortality.

Literal Translation
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Young's Literal Translation
for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For this corruptible must put on vncorrupcion, and this mortall must put on immortalite.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for this corruptible body must be invested with incorruptibility, this mortal be invested with immortality.

New English Translation
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

New King James Version
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Our dying bodies must be transformed into ones that will never die. The mortal must give way to the immortal.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Legacy Standard Bible
For this corruptible must put on the incorruptible, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Contextual Overview

⁵¹Listen to this secret truth: we shall not all die, but when the last trumpet sounds, we shall all be changed in an instant, as quickly as the blinking of an eye. For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed. ⁵³ For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die. ⁵⁴ So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: "Death is destroyed; victory is complete!" ⁵⁵ "Where, Death, is your victory? Where, Death, is your power to hurt?" ⁵⁶ Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

put: Romans 13:12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:2-4, Galatians 3:27, Ephesians 4:24, 1 John 3:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:10 - the death Job 17:14 - corruption Job 19:26 - in my flesh Luke 20:36 - can Acts 13:36 - and saw Romans 2:7 - immortality Romans 6:12 - mortal Romans 8:11 - mortal 2 Corinthians 4:11 - our 2 Corinthians 5:4 - that mortality Philippians 2:30 - the work Philippians 3:21 - the working Colossians 3:10 - put 2 Timothy 1:10 - and hath 1 Peter 1:23 - not Revelation 20:14 - death

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this corruptible must put on incorruption,.... The apostle returns to what he had before asserted, concerning the necessity of an alteration in the qualities of bodies, in order to the enjoyment of the heavenly state; showing, that the selfsame body the saints now have, for he seems to point with his finger to his own, and which are incorruptible ones, shall and must be clothed with incorruption:

and this mortal must put on immortality; the body that now is mortal, must become immortal; it must put off its rags of mortality, and be clothed with the shining robes of immortality; and which must be done, either by first dying, and then rising from the dead; or by undergoing alive a quick and sudden change, which will at once remove all corruption and mortality; see:

"He answered and said unto me, These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.'' (2 Esdras 2:45)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this corruptible ... - It is necessary that a change should take place, either by dying and then being raised, or by being changed without seeing death; for we cannot enter heaven as we are now.

Must put on - The word used here (ἐνδύνω endunō ) properly means to go in, to envelope, to put on as a garment; and then to put on any thing; as the soul is, as it were, clothed with, or invested with a body; and here it means, must be endued with, or furnished with. It is equivalent to saying that this corruptible become incorruptible, and this mortal must become immortal. We must cease to be corruptible and mortal, and must become incorruptible and immortal. The righteous who remain till the coming of Christ shall be at once changed, and invested, as Enoch and Elijah were, with incorruption and immortality.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 53. For this corruptible, c.] Because flesh and blood cannot inherit glory therefore, there must be a refinement by death, or a change without it.