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Corinthians Chapter 15: 35-57
The Resurrection Body
35But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body
will they come?" 36How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless
it dies. 37When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a
seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38But God gives it a body as he
has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39All flesh is
not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish
another. 40There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the
splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is
another. 41The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars
another; and star differs from star in splendor.
42So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is
perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43it is sown in dishonor, it is raised
in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44it is sown a natural
body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So it is written:
"The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a lifegiving spirit.
46The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47The
first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. 48As was
the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also
are those who are of heaven. 49And just as we have borne the likeness of the
earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
50I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom
of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Listen, I tell you
a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52in a flash, in
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be
raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe
itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When 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."
55"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?" 56The
sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God!
He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
