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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 body.
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An Upgraded Body, Not a Ghost
Commentators stress that a "spiritual body" is not a non-physical spirit. It's a real body, but its operating system is upgraded. Our current "natural" body is sustained by physical needs like food, air, and sleep. The resurrected "spiritual body" will be sustained directly by God's Spirit, free from decay, weakness, and earthly limitations. The change is in its quality and function, not its substance.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
It is sown a natural body. swma qucikon. This word "natural" properly denotes that which is endowed with animal life, having brea…
A natural body (σωμα ψυχικον). See on 2:14 for this word, a difficult one to translate since ψυχη has so many meanings. Natural is…
19th Century
Anglican
It is sown a natural body.—Here is a further and different application of the three analogies. It is not only that there is a variety of b…
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Baptist
It is raised in power: it is sown a natural body;
A soulish body, a body fitted for the human soul.
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…
16th Century
Protestant
It is sown an animal body. As he could not express each particular by enumerating one by one, he sums up all comprehensively<…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
It is sown a natural body Or an animal one, being generated as animals are, and supported with food as they are, and…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle shows by reason the difference in quality between the dead body and the resurrection body, which was indicated by the examples abo…
