Good News Translation GNT
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35 Someone will ask, "How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?"
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But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
36 You fool! When you plant a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies.
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How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37 And what you plant is a bare seed, perhaps a grain of wheat or some other grain, not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up.
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When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
38 God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body.
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But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
39 And the flesh of living beings is not all the same kind of flesh; human beings have one kind of flesh, animals another, birds another, and fish another.
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Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.
40 And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies.
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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.
41 The sun has its own beauty, the moon another beauty, and the stars a different beauty; and even among stars there are different kinds of beauty.
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The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
42 This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal.
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So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;
43 When buried, it is ugly and weak; when raised, it will be beautiful and strong.
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it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44 When buried, it is a physical body; when raised, it will be a spiritual body. There is, of course, a physical body, so there has to be a spiritual body.
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it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45 For the scripture says, "The first man, Adam, was created a living being"; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.
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So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being” ; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
46 It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
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The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
47 The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.
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The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.
48 Those who belong to the earth are like the one who was made of earth; those who are of heaven are like the one who came from heaven.
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As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.
49 Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.
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And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 What I mean, friends, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God's Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.
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I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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