1st Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 44 Holy Bible
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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It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.
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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].
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
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it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 44. - A natural body. The adjective is the word ψυχικόν, which is so difficult to translate; it means a body only animated by the psyche, or natural life. The word is sometimes in our Authorized Version rendered "carnal." A spiritual body. The apparent contradiction in terms is inevitable. The thing meant is a body which is not under the sway of corporeal desires or of intellectual and passionate impulses, but is wholly dominated by the Spirit, and therefore has no desire or capacity to fulfil the lusts of the flesh. There is. The better supported reading (א, A, B, C, D, F, G), is, if there is a natural body, etc. The existence of the one is no more impossible than the existence of the other.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(44) 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 body in these illustrations, but there is also an adaptability. The "body" which a plant has when it is in the form of seed is suited to the condition in which seed is placed; the "body" which it has when grown into a plant is suited to the changed conditions in which a plant exists; the "flesh" in the "body" form of a bird is suited to its sphere of life; the "flesh" in the "body" form of a fish is suited to its condition; and so on. It is not an accidental but a purposely adapted variety. So it will be in the variety of "bodies" for Humanity. A man's organism is sown (i.e., is born into this world) a natural body; it is raised (through and by death) a spiritual body. The body which we have here on earth is suited with a marvellous detail of adaptability to the life, physical and intellectual, amid which we are placed, and of which we form a part. It is, however, a hindrance to the spiritual man in each of us. (See 2 Corinthians 5) There will be a time for each when the body will become as perfectly adapted to the spiritual man in each as the human body here is to the natural man--no longer its hindrance, but its help. The "willing spirit" will then never be hampered and thwarted by a "weak flesh;" the body, having become spiritual itself, will be spiritually strong.There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.--This emphatic assertion that there are two bodies for man--as really as seed and a blossom are two bodies yet the same plant--is introductory to the further thought introduced in the next verse.
