The Nature of the Resurrection Body

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But some man will say, Howe are the dead raised vp? and with what body come they foorth?

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O foole, that which thou sowest, is not quickened, except it die.

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And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shalbe, but bare corne as it falleth, of wheat, or of some other.

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But God giueth it a body at his pleasure, euen to euery seede his owne body,

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All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beastes, and another of fishes, and another of birdes.

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There are also heauenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but the glorie of the heauenly is one, and the glorie of the earthly is another.

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There is another glorie of the sunne, and another glorie of the moone, and another glorie of the starres: for one starre differeth from another starre in glorie.

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So also is the resurrection of the dead. The bodie is sowen in corruption, and is raysed in incorruption.

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It is sowen in dishonour, and is raysed in glory: it is sowen in weakenesse, and is raysed in power.

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It is sowen a naturall body, and is raysed a spirituall body: there is a naturall body, and there is a spirituall body.

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As it is also written, The first man Adam was made a liuing soule: and the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.

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Howbeit that was not first which is spirituall: but that which is naturall, and afterward that which is spirituall.

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The first man is of the earth, earthly: the second man is the Lord from heauen.

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As is the earthly, such are they that are earthly: and as is the heauenly, such are they also that are heauenly.

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And as we haue borne the image of the earthly, so shall we beare the image of the heauenly.

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This say I, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherite the kingdome of God, neither doeth corruption inherite incorruption.

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