1 Corinthians 15:35-58 - Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
35 But someone will ask, "How can the dead rise? With what kind of body do they come back?" 36 You foolish man! the seed that you sow never comes to life unless it dies first; 37 and what you sow does not have the body that it is going to have, but is a naked grain, of wheat (it may be) or something else; 38 but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body. 39 Every kind of flesh is different. One kind belongs to men, another to cattle, another to birds, another to fish. 40 There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another. 41 One kind of splendor belongs to the sun, another to the moon, and another to the stars; yes, one star differs from another in splendor. 42 It is just like this with the resurrection of the dead. 43 The body is sown in decay, it is raised without decay; it is sown in humiliation, it is raised in splendor; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength; 44 it is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body too. 45 This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that comes first; it is the physical, and then the spiritual.
47 The first man was made of the dust of the earth; the second Man is from heaven. 48 Now those who are made of the dust are just like him who was first made of dust, and those who are heavenly are like Him who is from heaven, 49 and as we have reflected the likeness of him who was made of dust, let us also reflect the likeness of the Man from heaven.
50 But this I tell you, brothers: Our physical bodies cannot take part in the kingdom of God; what is decaying will never take part in what is immortal. 51 Let me tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised with bodies not subject to decay, and we shall be changed. 53 For this decaying part of us must put on the body that can never decay, and this part once capable of dying must put on the body that can never die. 54 And when this part once capable of dying puts on the body that can never die, then what the Scripture says will come true, "Death has been swallowed up in victory. 55 O Death, where is your victory now? O Death, where is your sting?" 56 Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power. 57 But thank God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.