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16. For by his own body Jesus Christ saved all flesh,

17. Presenting in his own body a temple of righteousness,

18. Through which we are saved.

19. Know therefore that they who follow them are not children of righteousness, but of wrath, who despise the wisdom of God, and, not believing, assert that heaven and earth, and all that is in them, are not a work of God.

20. [They are therefore children of wrath] they have the accursed belief of the serpent;

21. These remove from you, and keep aloof from their teaching.

22. [For you are not children of disobedience, but children of the beloved Church.

23. On this account the time of the resurrection has been preached by all.]

24. And they who say that there is no resurrection of the flesh, shall have no resurrection,

25. For they believe not that the Dead had thus risen.

26. For they know not, O Corinthians, the seed of wheat or some other grain that it is cast barely into the ground, and which having been dissolved rises up again after the will of God in the same body and clothed.

27. And he dissolves not only the body which is sown, but blesses it manifold.

28. And if one will not take the parable of the seed grains [but from nobler bodies]

29. Let him look at Jonah, the son of Amittai, who, become