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Updated: May 11, 2025
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
We have to interpret 'the resurrection of the body' by the definite apostolic declaration, 'Thou sowest not that body that shall be... but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him'; and we have to give full weight to the contrasts which the Apostle draws between the characteristics of that which is 'sown' and of that which is 'raised. The one is 'sown in corruption and raised in incorruption. Natural decay is contrasted with immortal youth.
He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in the world shall keep it unto life eternal.” Romans VI, 5 ff.: “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. I Corinthians XV, 42 ff.: “It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
Bethink thee of that saying of St. Paul in Corinthians, about corruption and incorruption; how that we are sown in dishonour, but raised in glory. And likewise call to mind that saying of Paracelsus about what it is that maketh the best musk. Also forget not the strange fact that of all things of ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst.
As is the earthly, so are they also that are earthly: and as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
By the change that has taken place, corruption has put on incorruption; the natural body has become a quickening spirit; death is swallowed up in victory.
O this mount Zion! O this heavenly Jerusalem! "When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass that saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
For all who accept the message, this hope shines clear, of a building of God imperishable and solid, when contrasted with the tent in which we dwell here of a body 'raised in incorruption, 'clothed with immortality, and so, as in many another phrase, declared to be exempt from decay, and therefore vigorous with unchanging youth. How that comes we cannot tell.
Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?
'Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. That future home of the spirit will be congruous with the region in which it dwells; fitted for the heavens in which it is now preserved.
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