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There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.
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An Analogy from Creation
Paul uses a simple, powerful analogy from the world around us. Just as we can clearly see a vast difference in splendor between heavenly bodies (the sun, moon, stars) and earthly bodies (people, animals, plants), we should expect an equally profound difference between our current bodies and our future resurrection bodies.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
There are also celestial bodies. The planets; the stars; the host of heaven. (See 1 Corinthians 15:41).
And bodies …
19th Century
Anglican
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial.—It is held by many that this is a distinct illu…
Baptist
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.<…
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Paul now answers the question some believers were asking: since a resurrection “body” (GK 5393) would be like the sinful mortal body we now have, h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
There are also celestial bodies Or bodies in the heavens, as the sun, moon, and stars:
and bodies terrestri…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle presents an example of the different qualities of a resurrected body by comparing various types of bodies. First, he compares heav…
