The Resurrection Body

1 Corinthians 15

35 But someone will say, q "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?" 36 Foolish one, r 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 1 of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. 40 There are also 2 celestial bodies and 3 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 s So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 t 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, u "The first man Adam became a living being." 4 v The last Adam became w a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 x The first man was of the earth, y made 5 of dust; the second Man is 6 the Lord z from heaven. 48 As was the 7 man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; a and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And b as we have borne the image of the man of dust, c we 8 shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:3
    And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" So I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know.
  2. Cross References
    John 12:24
    Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
  3. Cross References
    Daniel 12:3
    Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.
    Matthew 13:43
    Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
  4. Cross References
    Philippians 3:21
    Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
    Colossians 3:4
    When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 2:7
    And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
  6. Cross References
    Romans 5:14
    Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
  7. Cross References
    John 5:21
    For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.
    John 6:57
    As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
    Romans 8:2
    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
    Philippians 3:21
    Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
    Colossians 3:4
    When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
  8. Cross References
    John 3:31
    He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 2:7
    And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
    Genesis 3:19
    In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.
  10. Cross References
    John 3:13
    No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
  11. Cross References
    Philippians 3:20
    For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 5:3
    And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
  13. Cross References
    Romans 8:29
    For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
    2 Corinthians 3:18
    But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
    Philippians 3:21
    Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
    1 John 3:2
    Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
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