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35 But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
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But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come 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 sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
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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 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own 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 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
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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 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
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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 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.
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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 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
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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 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
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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 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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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 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being";the last Adam became a 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 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, 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 man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
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The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.
48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of 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 have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of 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.
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