The Resurrection Body
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But someone will ask, d "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
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You foolish person! e What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
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And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
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But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
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For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
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There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
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There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
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f So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
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It is sown in dishonor; g it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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Thus it is written, h "The first man Adam became a living being"; i the last Adam became a j life-giving spirit.
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But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
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k The first man was from the earth, l a man of dust; m the second man is from heaven.
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As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, n so also are those who are of heaven.
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Just o as we have borne the image of the man of dust, p we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 37:3
And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, you know.
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John 12:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
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Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Matthew 13:43
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
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Cross References
Philippians 3:21
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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Cross References
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
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John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives the...
John 6:33
For the bread of God is he who comes down from ...
John 6:39 - 40
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I...
John 6:54
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood h...
John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live becaus...
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you f...
Romans 8:10
But if Christ is in you, although the body is d...
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Cross References
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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John 3:31
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.
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Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
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Cross References
John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
John 3:31
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.
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Cross References
Philippians 3:20
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
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Romans 8:29
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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