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What a hard year... First my girlfriends illness and now this.... 
My Grandpa just passed away. He was 83....
He donated the land and built the Church "some" of my family have attended over the past 50 years.... He was an avid Bible fundamentalist but never judged even his own kids when they strayed from doing the right thing.... He truly loved Christ and was an honest man I looked up to more than any other...
I want to do a scripture reading for the funeral and this is what I came up with...
I think I will use the New Living Translation because it seems to flow nicely....
So here is what I think I will go with....
What do you think?
50What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These perishable bodies of ours are not able to live forever.
51But let me tell you a wonderful secret God has revealed to us. Not all of us will die, but we will all be transformed. 52It will happen in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, the Christians who have died will be raised with transformed bodies. And then we who are living will be transformed so that we will never die. 53For our perishable earthly bodies must be transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die.
54When this happens--when our perishable earthly bodies have been transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die--then at last the Scriptures will come true:
"Death is swallowed up in victory.[j]
55
O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?"[k]
56For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57How we thank God, who gives us victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ our Lord!
58So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord's work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.
My Grandpa just passed away. He was 83....
He donated the land and built the Church "some" of my family have attended over the past 50 years.... He was an avid Bible fundamentalist but never judged even his own kids when they strayed from doing the right thing.... He truly loved Christ and was an honest man I looked up to more than any other...
I want to do a scripture reading for the funeral and this is what I came up with...
I think I will use the New Living Translation because it seems to flow nicely....
So here is what I think I will go with....
What do you think?
50What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These perishable bodies of ours are not able to live forever.
51But let me tell you a wonderful secret God has revealed to us. Not all of us will die, but we will all be transformed. 52It will happen in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, the Christians who have died will be raised with transformed bodies. And then we who are living will be transformed so that we will never die. 53For our perishable earthly bodies must be transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die.
54When this happens--when our perishable earthly bodies have been transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die--then at last the Scriptures will come true:
"Death is swallowed up in victory.[j]
55
O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?"[k]
56For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57How we thank God, who gives us victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ our Lord!
58So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord's work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.
