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The Resurrection Body and Victory over Death

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Chapter 15

³⁵ But someone will say, “How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?” ³⁶ Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will come to be, but a naked grain—perhaps wheat or some of the others. ³⁸ But God gives it a body just as he willed, and to each of the seeds its own body. ³⁹ Not all flesh is the same flesh, but there is one kind of humans, and another flesh of beasts, another flesh of birds, another of fish. ⁴⁰ and heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but one glory indeed for the heavenly ones, another for the earthly ones. ⁴¹ Another glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. ⁴² In this way also the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in imperishability. 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 soulish body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a soulish body, there is also a spiritual one. ⁴⁵ It is also written: The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶ But not first the spiritual, but the soulish; thereafter the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man is from the dusty earth; the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly one, so also are the earthly ones; and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly ones. ⁴⁹ And just as we have worn the image of the earthly one, we will also wear the image of the heavenly one. ⁵⁰ But this I say, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit imperishability. ⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed. ⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on imperishability, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ But when this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal puts on immortality, then the word that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” ⁵⁵ Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting? ⁵⁶ Now the sting of death is sin, but the power 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 brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in the Lord.