1 Corinthians 15:35–58

A Glorious Body

³⁵But someone will say, ^q“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” ³⁶Foolish one, ^rwhat you sow is not made alive unless it dies. ³⁷And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. ³⁸But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind ⁶of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

⁴⁰There are also ⁷celestial bodies and ⁸terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹There 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.

^42sSo also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. ^43tIt 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. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵And so it is written, ^u“The first man Adam became a living being.” ^vThe last Adam became ^wa life-giving spirit.

⁴⁶However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. ^47xThe first man was of the earth, ^ymade ⁹of dust; the second Man is ¹the Lord ^zfrom heaven. ⁴⁸As was the ²man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; ^aand as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹And ^bas we have borne the image of the man of dust, ^cwe ³shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

Our Final Victory

⁵⁰Now this I say, brethren, that ^dflesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. ⁵¹Behold, I tell you a ⁴mystery: ^eWe shall not all sleep, ^fbut we shall all be changed—⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. ^gFor the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and ^hthis mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: ⁱ“Death is swallowed up in victory.”

⁵⁵“O ^{j 5}Death, where is your sting?

O Hades, where is your victory?”

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and ^kthe strength of sin is the law. ^57lBut thanks be to God, who gives us ^mthe victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸ⁿTherefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing ^othat your labor is not in vain in the Lord.