1 Corinthians 15:35-58 - Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
35 But some one will say: How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thoughtless man! That which you sow is not made alive, unless it die; 37 and as to that which you sow, you sow not the body that shall be produced, but the naked grain, it may be of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 but God gives it a body, as it pleases him; and to every seed, its proper body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 40 There are also bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and that of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 42 So, also, is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power: 44 it is sown an animal body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 So, also, it is written: The first man Adam became a living soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit. 46 But that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is animal; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man, the Lord from heaven. 48 As the earthy man was, such also are the earthy; and as the heavenly man is, such also shall the heavenly be. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I declare to you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible body must put on incorruptibility; and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 And when this corruptible body shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal body shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 Death, where is thy sting? Hades, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.