Good morning. But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to
each of the seeds a body of its own. He then talks about different types of
flesh, animals, and heavenly bodies. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural
body, there is also a spiritual body. This is all related back to the sewing of
a seed, which does not look like the plant that grows. So also it is written,
“the first man, Adam, became a living soul.“ The last Adam became a life-giving
spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural (like the seed),
then the spiritual (like the plant). We will finish his comment next time.
Father continue to help the reader and his/her family.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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