1 Corinthians 15:35-57

35But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what body do they come?

36Fool; what thou sowest is not quickened unless it die.

37And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the rest:

38and 1God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

39Every flesh [is] not the same flesh, but one [is] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another [flesh] of birds, and another of fishes.

40And [there are] heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the earthly:

41one [the] sun's glory, and another [the] moon's glory, and another [the] stars' glory; for star differs from star in glory.

42Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.

43It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

44It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [one].

45Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.

46But that which is spiritual [was] not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

47the first man out of [the] earth, made of dust; the second man, out of heaven.

48Such as he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and such as the heavenly [one], such also the heavenly [ones].

49And as we have borne the image of the [one] made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [one].

50But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit 2God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.

51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,

52in an instant, in [the] twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.

54But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word written: Death has been swallowed up in victory.

55Where, O death, [is] thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?

56Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law;

57but thanks to 3God, who gives us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.