1 Corinthians 15:31-49

English Standard Version

³¹ I protest, brothers, by ^(A)my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, ^(B)I die every day! ³² What do I gain if, humanly speaking, ^(C)I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, ^(D)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” ^33 (E)Do not be deceived: ^(F)“Bad company ruins good morals.”^{[a] 34 (G)}Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For ^(H)some have no knowledge of God. ^(I)I say this to your shame.

The Resurrection Body

³⁵ But someone will ask, ^(J)“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” ³⁶ You foolish person! ^(K)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. ³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed 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. 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. 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.

^42 (L)So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor; ^(M)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. ⁴⁵ Thus it is written, ^(N)“The first man Adam became a living being”;^{[b] (O)}the last Adam became a ^(P)life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶ But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. ^47 (Q)The first man was from the earth, ^(R)a man of dust; ^(S)the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, ^(T)so also are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹ Just ^(U)as we have borne the image of the man of dust, ^(V)we shall^[c] also bear the image of the man of heaven.