about that resurrection and eternal life
A Glorious Body
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” 36 Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other
grain. 38 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.
39 All flesh
is not the same flesh, but
there is one
kind [
f]
of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish,
and another of birds.
40
There are also [
g]celestial bodies and [
h]terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial
is one, and the
glory of the terrestrial
is another. 41
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for
one star differs from
another star in glory.
42 So also
is the resurrection of the dead.
The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam
became a life-giving spirit.
46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man
was of the earth,
made[
i] of dust; the second Man
is [
j]the Lord from heaven. 48 As
was the [
k]
man of dust, so also
are those
who are made of dust; and as
is the heavenly
Man, so also
are those
who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the
man of dust, we[
l] shall also bear the image of the heavenly
Man.
Our Final Victory
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a [
m]mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O[
n] Death, where
is your sting?
O Hades, where
is your victory?”
56 The sting of death
is sin, and the strength of sin
is the law. 57 But thanks
be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
