The Nature of the Resurrection Body

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

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

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

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

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

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

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One 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.

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

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

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It 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:

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

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

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

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

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

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