1 Corinthians 15:39

Similarly, people, animals, birds, and fish all have flesh, but each one has a different kind of flesh.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

38God gives everything that lives the form that he desires. He gives each seed its own form.

40Also, there are angelic beings in heaven (OR, stars and planets in the sky), and there are people with bodies on the earth. The angelic beings (OR, stars and planets) are beautiful in one way, and people on earth are beautiful in a different way.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20Then God said, “I want many creatures to live in all the oceans, and I also want birds to fly in the sky above the earth.”

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:36-51

The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 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: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,… Read the whole commentary →

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