1 Corinthians 15:35–58

³⁵But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what manner of body shall they come?

³⁶Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

³⁷And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

³⁸But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes.

⁴⁰And there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

⁴¹One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

⁴²So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

⁴³It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness: it shall rise in power.

⁴⁴It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written:

⁴⁵The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

⁴⁶Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

⁴⁸Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.

⁴⁹Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

⁵⁰Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.

⁵¹Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed.

⁵²In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed.

⁵³For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

⁵⁵O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

⁵⁶Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

⁵⁷But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.