Sermons citing 1 Corinthians 15:34–58

^15:36 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

^15:37 And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.

^15:38 But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

^15:39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

^15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.

^15:41 The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

^15:42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.

^15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

^15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

^15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

^15:46 The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

^15:47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

^15:48 As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

^15:49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

^15:50 Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

^15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—

^15:52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

^15:53 For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

^15:54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

^15:55 “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

^15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

^15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

^15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.