⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;^(A) so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.^(B)

⁸ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking^(C) in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid^(D) from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”^(E)

¹⁰ He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid^(F) because I was naked;^(G) so I hid.”

¹¹ And he said, “Who told you that you were naked?^(H) Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?^(I)”

¹² The man said, “The woman you put here with me^(J)—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

¹³ Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me,^(K) and I ate.”

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

¹⁶ To the woman he said,

¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(S)

²⁰ Adam^[c] named his wife Eve,^[d](AC) because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹ The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.^{(AD) 22} And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(AE) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(AF) and eat, and live forever.” ²³ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^(AG) to work the ground^(AH) from which he had been taken. ²⁴ After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^[e] of the Garden of Eden^(AI) cherubim^(AJ) and a flaming sword^(AK) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^(AL)

⁴² So will it be^(A) with the resurrection of the dead.^(B) The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;^{(C) 43} it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory;^(D) it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.^(E)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”^[a];^(F) the last Adam,^(G) a life-giving spirit.^{(H) 46} The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.^{(I) 47} The first man was of the dust of the earth;^(J) the second man is of heaven.^{(K) 48} As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.^{(L) 49} And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,^(M) so shall we^[b] bear the image of the heavenly man.^(N)

⁵⁰ I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood^(O) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,^(P) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.^{(Q) 51} Listen, I tell you a mystery:^(R) We will not all sleep,^(S) but we will all be changed^(T)— ⁵² in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,^(U) the dead^(V) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³ For the perishable^(W) must clothe itself with the imperishable,^(X) 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.”^[c](Y)

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin,^(AA) and the power of sin is the law.^{(AB) 57} But thanks be to God!^(AC) He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.^(AD)

⁵⁸ Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,^(AE) because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.^(AF)

Awaiting the New Body

5 For we know that if the earthly^(A) tent^(B) we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. ² Meanwhile we groan,^(C) longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^{(D) 3} because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ⁴ For while we are in this tent, we groan^(E) and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^(F) so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.^(G)

⁶ Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. ⁷ For we live by faith, not by sight.^{(H) 8} We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.^{(I) 9} So we make it our goal to please him,^(J) whether we are at home in the body or away from it. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us^(K) for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.