1 Corinthians 15:35-49

New King James Version

A Glorious Body

³⁵ But someone will say, ^(A)“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” ³⁶ Foolish one, ^(B)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 ^[a]of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

⁴⁰ There are also ^[b]celestial bodies and ^[c]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 (C)So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. ^43 (D)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, ^(E)“The first man Adam became a living being.” ^(F)The last Adam became ^(G)a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. ^47 (H)The first man was of the earth, ^(I)made^[d] of dust; the second Man is ^[e]the Lord ^(J)from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the ^[f]man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; ^(K)and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And ^(L)as we have borne the image of the man of dust, ^(M)we^[g] shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.