1 Corinthians 15:41

The sun is bright in one way, and the moon is bright in a different way, and the stars are bright in a different way. And even the various stars are different from each other in how bright they are.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

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.

42And it is the same way with our bodies. The bodies that we will have when God causes us to live again after we die will not be the same as the bodies that we have now [MET]. The bodies that we have now will die and decay. The new bodies that we will have will never die.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:14Then God said, “I want a sun, a moon, and many stars to shine in the sky. The sun will shine in the daytime and the moon and stars will shine during the nighttime. By the changes in their appearance they will indicate the various seasons (OR, the times for special celebrations), and will enable people to know when days and years begin.

Job 31:26or that I looked at the sun when it was shining or looked at the beautiful moon

Psalms 19:4But what they declare about God goes throughout the world, and even people who live in the most distant/remote places on earth can know it. The sun is in the skies where God placed it [MET];

Isaiah 24:23At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened; it will be as though they are ashamed in the presence of Yahweh, because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously ◄on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem►, in the presence of the leaders of his people.

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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