1 Corinthians 15:44
The body sown is animal The body is raised is spiritual. If there is an animal body, there is also a spiritual body.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
43Sown in weakness, It is raised in power;
45Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.
Cross References
John 20:19On the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, although the doors of the room where the disciples gathered had been locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and there he stood among them, saying. "Peace to you!"
1 Corinthians 15:50I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.
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 →