A Spiritual Body

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35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

36You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

37And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.

38But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

39Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

40There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.

41The sun has one degree 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: What 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 life-giving spirit.

46The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

47The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

48As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

Berean Standard Bible