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"There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies. The sun has one kind of glory, while the moon and stars each have another kind. And even the stars differ from each other in their glory".
The bodies of God's earthly creation reveal His glory in a different way than the heavenly bodies He has made. Paul will go on to suggest a connection between these heavenly bodies and the resurrected bodies of believers. They will have a glory all their own.
There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa Bible
the earthly body is natural (or anchored to nature)….the heavenly body is spiritual Richard Hays: Our mortal bodies embody the psyche (“ soul ”), the animating force of our present existence, but the resurrection body will embody the divinely given pneuma (“ spirit ”).
- Philippians 3:21 ESV / 60 helpful votes. Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
- Revelation 21:4 ESV / 53 helpful votes. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
- 1 John 3:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
- Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 47 helpful votes. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
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1 Corinthians 15:40-43. New Living Translation. 40 There are also bodies in the heavens and bodies on the earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the glory of the earthly bodies. 41 The sun has one kind of glory, while the moon and stars each have another kind.
