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35 But someone will ask, "In what manner are the dead raised? What sort of body do they have?"
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35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"
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36 Stupid! When you sow a seed, it doesn't come alive unless it first dies.
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36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
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37 Also, what you sow is not the body that will be, but a bare seed of, say, wheat or something else;
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37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
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38 but God gives it the body he intended for it; and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
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38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
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39 Not all living matter is the same living matter; on the contrary, there is one kind for human beings, another kind of living matter for animals, another for birds and another for fish.
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39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.
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40 Further, there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but the beauty of heavenly bodies is one thing, while the beauty of earthly bodies is something else.
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40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.
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41 The sun has one kind of beauty, the moon another, the stars yet another; indeed, each star has its own individual kind of beauty.
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41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
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42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. When the body is "sown," it decays; when it is raised, it cannot decay.
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42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;
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43 When sown, it is without dignity; when raised, it will be beautiful. When sown, it is weak; when raised, it will be strong.
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43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
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44 When sown, it is an ordinary human body; when raised, it will be a body controlled by the Spirit. If there is an ordinary human body, there is also a body controlled by the Spirit.
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44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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45 In fact, the Tanakh says so: Adam, the first man, became a living human being;o but the last "Adam" has become a life-giving Spirit.
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45 So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
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46 Note, however, that the body from the Spirit did not come first, but the ordinary human one; the one from the Spirit comes afterwards.
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46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
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47 The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
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47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
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48 People born of dust are like the man of dust, and people born from heaven are like the man from heaven;
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48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.
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49 and just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so also we will bear the image of the man from heaven.
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49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
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50 Let me say this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, nor can something that decays share in what does not decay.
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50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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51 Look, I will tell you a secret - not all of us will die! But we will all be changed!
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51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--
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52 It will take but a moment, the blink of an eye, at the final shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever, and we too will be changed.
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52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
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53 For this material which can decay must be clothed with imperishability, this which is mortal must be clothed with immortality.
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53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
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54 When what decays puts on imperishability and what is mortal puts on immortality, then this passage in the Tanakh will be fulfilled: "Death is swallowed up in victory.
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54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
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55 "Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?"
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55 "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"
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56 The sting of death is sin; and sin draws its power from the Torah;
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56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah!
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57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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| Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online) |
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