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*But someone may say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come back?”
The Resurrection Body.
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* You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies.
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And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind;
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but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body.
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* 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.
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There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the brightness of the heavenly is one kind and that of the earthly another.
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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.
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* So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible.
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It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful.
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
I’m sure those were all your own original words and thoughts since there is no attribution given.
What translation are you using? It’s really sort of flat, completely lacking in the pacing, rhythm and poetic grandeur of the King James.
It’s functional enough I suppose, with little to quibble about as far as meaning outside of “brightness” instead of glory which carries a whole ‘nother shade of meaning beyond that, but the inspiration just isn’t there. It’s one of my personal favorites in scripture, from both a purely literary standpoint as well as a spiritual one.
Have you ever pondered the meaning of it at length, narses? Natural bodies likened unto seeds, with so many kinds of bodies listed and compared?
So far; you are batting a 1,000