1 Corinthians 15:53

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality Cf. 2 Corinthians 5:4. The Apostle has just said that -flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." He now explains in what sense these words are to be taken. The mortal body is not destroyed entirely and created again. "Change," says Tertullian, "must be dissociated from all idea of destruction. For change is one thing, destruction another." It receives an addition of qualities which it did not possess before. It is -clothed upon" with immortality. That which was corruptible is now freed from that liability ("sanctified and cleared from all impurity." Irenaeus). That which is mortal is swallowed up, and disappears in the vastness of the life which knows no end. See note on 1 Corinthians 15:38.