#ScriptureReflection - 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 (3.9.22)

 C. The Manner of the Resurrection

³⁵  But someone may say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come back?”

The Resurrection Body.
³⁶  You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies. ³⁷  And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind; ³⁸  but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body. ³⁹  Not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for human beings, another kind of flesh for animals, another kind of flesh for birds, and another for fish. ⁴⁰  There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the brightness of the heavenly is one kind and that of the earthly another. ⁴¹  The brightness of the sun is one kind, the brightness of the moon another, and the brightness of the stars another. For star differs from star in brightness.

⁴²  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible. ⁴³  It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful. ⁴⁴  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.

⁴⁵  So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶  But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷  The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven. ⁴⁸  As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly, and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly. ⁴⁹  Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.

Source: NABRE (New American Bible Revised Edition)