1 Corinthians 15:50 meaning and explanation

Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

1 Corinthians 15:50, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul is speaking to the Corinthian believers who doubted bodily resurrection. Having compared the first Adam to the last Adam, he states that "flesh and blood," a phrase for ordinary mortal human nature as it now is, cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor can the perishable inherit the imperishable.

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