1 Corinthians 15: 35 - 37, 42 - 49
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| 35
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But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
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| 36
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You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
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| 37
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And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
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| 42
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So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
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| 43
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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
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It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
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| 45
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Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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| 46
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But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual.
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| 47
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The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
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| 48
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As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
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| 49
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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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