2 Corinthians 7

2 Corinthians 7:1

It is sown in corruption. Planted in burial in corruption. It goes to decay. It is raised in incorruption. With a new body suited to the new condition of existence, which is incorruptible; cannot decay.

2 Corinthians 7:2

Sown in dishonour. The dead body is repulsive, becomes offensive, and we bury it out of sight. Raised in glory. Has a glorious beauty. Sown in weakness. All its powers exhausted. Raised in power. Endowed with heavenly energy.

2 Corinthians 7:3

Sown a natural body. A fleshly body with animal life. Raised a spiritual body. A body whose life principle is the spirit. Not a fleshly body, but a spiritual existence. We cannot comprehend the nature of this existence, but we can know that it is not a body of flesh, bones, and blood; perhaps not more material than the forms of the angels. See 1 Corinthians 15:50.

2 Corinthians 7:4

The first man Adam was made a living soul. See Genesis 2:7. From him came our natural life. The last Adam, Christ, of whom Adam was a type. A living spirit. By giving life to the dead, and imparting spiritual existence.

2 Corinthians 7:5

Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual. The first Adam came before the second Adam. But that which is natural. The natural body which proceeds from the first Adam is our tabernacle first. Afterward that which is spiritual. After this life comes the “spiritual body”, which the second Adam gives.

2 Corinthians 7:6

The first man [is] from the earth. Was fashioned out of the earth (Genesis 2:7).

2 Corinthians 7:7

As [is] the earthy. All have earthly bodies like that of Adam. As [is] the heavenly. When we are raised to heaven we shall have spiritual bodies like Christ’s, not like the body he received from Mary, but the glorious body in which he appears to saints and angels on high. Do we ask what body we shall have? It shall be like Christ’s glorious body. See Philippians 3:21.

2 Corinthians 7:9

Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. If of flesh and blood, our bodies would be corruptible, and would not be suited to the eternal kingdom.

2 Corinthians 7:10

Behold, I shew you a mystery. I disclose to you a secret of which you have had, hitherto, no knowledge. We shall not all sleep. There will be some on the death who shall be alive when Christ comes. But we shall all be changed. The living who meet Christ, as well as the dead who are raised up. All shall be made immortal and incorruptible.

2 Corinthians 7:11

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. The change will be instantaneous. At the last trump. See 1 Thessalonians 4:16. The trumpet shall sound. This signal for the close of all earthly things. See Matthew 24:31.

2 Corinthians 7:12

For this incorruptible must put on incorruption. For this corruptible body must give place to the incorruptible body; the mortal frame to an immortal one. One must be “put off”, the other “put on”. See 2 Corinthians 5:2.

2 Corinthians 7:13

The saying. See Isaiah 25:8. Death is swallowed up in victory. This is the final victory, the victory over death.

2 Corinthians 7:14

O death, where [is] thy sting? This is quoted from Hosea 13:14. It is here the triumphant shout of the apostle as he sees by faith the final victory over death.

2 Corinthians 7:15

The sting of death [is] sin. It is sin that gives death his power to sting and destroy. See Romans 6:23. The power of sin [is] the law. The law, broken, is sin, and when this law is consciously broken the conscience is wounded. When a moral law is broken, moral death follows. If there was no law of any kind, there would be no sin, no wounded consciences, no moral death. See Romans 7:7.

2 Corinthians 7:16

Thanks [be] to God. For the victory over sin and death through Christ.