The Resurrection Body

³⁵ But someone will ask,^(A) “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”^(B)

³ He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.^(A)”

³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.^{(A) 39} Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰ There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹ The sun has one kind of splendor,^(B) the moon another and the stars another;^(C) and star differs from star in splendor.

⁴² So will it be^(D) with the resurrection of the dead.^(E) The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;^{(F) 43} it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory;^(G) it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.^(H)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”^[a];^(I) the last Adam,^(J) a life-giving spirit.^{(K) 46} The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.^{(L) 47} The first man was of the dust of the earth;^(M) the second man is of heaven.^{(N) 48} As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.^{(O) 49} And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,^(P) so shall we^[b] bear the image of the heavenly man.^(Q)

⁵⁰ I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood^(R) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,^(S) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.^{(T) 51} Listen, I tell you a mystery:^(U) We will not all sleep,^(V) but we will all be changed^(W)— ⁵² in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,^(X) the dead^(Y) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³ For the perishable^(Z) must clothe itself with the imperishable,^(AA) and the mortal with immortality.

¹⁹ One of you will say to me:^(A) “Then why does God still blame us?^(B) For who is able to resist his will?”^(C)

²¹ who, by the power^(A) that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies^(B) so that they will be like his glorious body.^(C)

¹⁰ “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

⁹ “How can this be?”^(A) Nicodemus asked.

⁴ “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

²⁹ Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures^(A) or the power of God. ³⁰ At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;^(B) they will be like the angels in heaven.