A Glorious Body

³⁵ But someone will say, ^(A)“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”

³ And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

So I answered, “O Lord God, ^(A)You know.”

³⁸ But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

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

⁴⁰ There are also ^[b]celestial bodies and ^[c]terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹ There 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.

^42 (A)So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. ^43 (B)It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, ^(C)“The first man Adam became a living being.” ^(D)The last Adam became ^(E)a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. ^47 (F)The first man was of the earth, ^(G)made^[d] of dust; the second Man is ^[e]the Lord ^(H)from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the ^[f]man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; ^(I)and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And ^(J)as we have borne the image of the man of dust, ^(K)we^[g] shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

Our Final Victory

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brethren, that ^(L)flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. ⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a ^[h]mystery: ^(M)We shall not all sleep, ^(N)but we shall all be changed— ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. ^(O)For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and ^(P)this mortal must put on immortality.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For ^(A)who has resisted His will?”

^21 (A)who will transform our lowly body that it may be ^(B)conformed to His glorious body, ^(C)according to the working by which He is able even to ^(D)subdue all things to Himself.

¹⁰ Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

⁹ Nicodemus answered and said to Him, ^(A)“How can these things be?”

⁴ Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, “You are ^[a]mistaken, ^(A)not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but ^(B)are like angels ^[b]of God in heaven.