1 Corinthians 15:35-58 - Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
35 But, someone will ask, 'how do the dead rise? What kind of body have they when they come?' 36 Foolish man! What you sow never comes to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be; it is a mere grain of wheat, for example, or some other seed. 38 God gives it a body as he pleases, gives each kind of seed a body of its own. 39 Flesh is not all the same; there is human flesh, there is flesh of beasts, flesh of birds, and flesh of fish. 40 There are heavenly bodies and also earthly bodies, but the splendour of the heavenly is one thing and the splendour of the earthly is another. 41 There is a splendour of the sun and a splendour of the moon and a splendour of the stars ??for one star differs from another in splendour. 42 So with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is mortal, what rises is immortal; 43 sown inglorious, it rises in glory; sown in weakness, it rises in power; 44 sown an animate body, it rises a spiritual body. As there is an animate body, so there is a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit'; 46 but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual.
47 Man the first is from the earth, material; Man the second is from heaven. 48 As Man the material is, so are the material; as Man the heavenly is, so are the heavenly. 49 Thus, as we have borne the likeness of material Man, so we are to bear the likeness of the heavenly Man.
50 I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable. 51 Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed ??52 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality; 54 and when this mortal body has been invested with immortality, then the saying of Scripture will be realized, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? 56 -- 57 The victory is ours, thank God! He makes it ours by our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.