1 Corinthians 15:35-58 - Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
35 But will any man say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool! what thou sowest is not quickened except it die: 37 and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body which shall be afterwards, but the bare grain, perhaps of wheat, or of some of the other seeds: 38 but God giveth it a body as he pleaseth, and to each of the seeds its peculiar body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, and another flesh of cattle, and another of fishes, and another of birds. 40 Also there are celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and that of the terrestrial another. 41 There is one glory of the sun; and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for star differeth 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 dishonour; 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 And so it is written, There was a first man Adam a living soul; a last Adam a quickening spirit. 46 But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is animal; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man was of the earth, earthly; the second man was the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthly, so are they also that are earthly: and as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not indeed all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For that which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and that which is mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when that which is corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and that which is mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, 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 giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.