The Nature of the Resurrection Body

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But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?

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unwise! thou--what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;

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and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

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and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.

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All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;

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and there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;

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one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.

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So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

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it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

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it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

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so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

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

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The first man is out of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord out of heaven;

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as is the earthy, such are also the earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are also the heavenly;

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and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

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And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;