1 Corinthians 15:32-47
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32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
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33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
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34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
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35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
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36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
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37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
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38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
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39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
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40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
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41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
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42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
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43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
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44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
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45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
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47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.