1 Corinthians 15:39
New International Version
Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.

New Living Translation
Similarly there are different kinds of flesh—one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

English Standard Version
For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

Berean Standard Bible
Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

Berean Literal Bible
Not all flesh is the same, but indeed one flesh is of men, and another flesh is of beasts, and another flesh is of birds, and another is of fish.

King James Bible
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

New King James Version
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

New American Standard Bible
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of mankind, another flesh of animals, another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

NASB 1995
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

NASB 1977
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

Legacy Standard Bible
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

Amplified Bible
All flesh is not the same. There is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

Christian Standard Bible
Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

American Standard Version
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But not every body is equal to another, for there is the body of a man and another of an ox and another of a bird and another of a fish.

Contemporary English Version
People, animals, birds, and fish are each made of flesh, but none of them are alike.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.

English Revised Version
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.

Good News Translation
And the flesh of living beings is not all the same kind of flesh; human beings have one kind of flesh, animals another, birds another, and fish another.

International Standard Version
Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals in general have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.

Literal Standard Version
All flesh [is] not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;

Majority Standard Bible
Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, fish another, and birds another.

New American Bible
Not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for human beings, another kind of flesh for animals, another kind of flesh for birds, and another for fish.

NET Bible
All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

New Revised Standard Version
Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

New Heart English Bible
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of humans, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

Webster's Bible Translation
All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of fowls.

Weymouth New Testament
All flesh is not the same: there is human flesh, and flesh of cattle, of birds, and of fishes.

World English Bible
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

Young's Literal Translation
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;

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Context
The Resurrection Body
38But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body. 39Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another. 40There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:38
But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

1 Corinthians 15:40
There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.


Treasury of Scripture

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

Genesis 1:20-26
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven…

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1 Corinthians 15
1. By Christ's resurrection,
12. he proves the necessity of our resurrection,
16. against all such as deny the resurrection of the body.
21. The fruit,
35. and the manner thereof;
51. and of the resurrection of those who shall be found alive at the last day.














(39) All flesh is not the same flesh.--Better, There is no flesh the same flesh. All organisms have the same basis; there is a "structural unit" in all animal life; but God gives this a vast variety of form in man, in beast, in fish. The same divine prescience which gives to all flesh here the form suited to its condition and surroundings can give hereafter another form to it suitable to the new conditions and surroundings in which it will then be placed. If we had only seen flesh in the form of an animal, and were told that "flesh" could live in the sea, we might have equally argued, "How, with what body?" but seeing as we do that there is a variety of bodies, we feel no such difficulty.

Verse 39. - All flesh is not the same flesh. In other words, animal organisms differ from each other, just as do the vegetable. Another... of beasts. "The germinal power of the plant transmutes the fixed air and the elementary base of water into grass or leaves, and on these the organic principle in the ox or the elephant exercises an alchemy still more stupendous. As the unseen agency weaves its magic eddies, the foliage becomes indifferently the bone and its marrow, the pulpy brain and the solid ivory. That which you see is blood, is flesh, is itself the work, or shall I say the translucence of the invisible energy which soon surrenders or abandons them to inferior powers (for there is no pause nor chasm in the activities of nature) which repeat a similar metamorphosis according to their kind: these are not fancies, conjectures, or even hypotheses, but facts" (Coleridge, 'Aids to Reflection ').

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Not
Οὐ (Ou)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

all
πᾶσα (pasa)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

flesh [is]
σὰρξ (sarx)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

same:
αὐτὴ (autē)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Feminine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

Men [have]
ἀνθρώπων (anthrōpōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

one [kind of]
ἄλλη (allē)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 243: Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; 'else, ' i.e. Different.

flesh,
σάρξ (sarx)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred.

animals [have]
κτηνῶν (ktēnōn)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 2934: From ktaomai; property, i.e. a domestic animal.

another,
ἄλλη (allē)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 243: Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; 'else, ' i.e. Different.

birds
πτηνῶν (ptēnōn)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 4421: Winged; subst: a bird, fowl. Contraction for peteinon; a bird.

another,
ἄλλη (allē)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 243: Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; 'else, ' i.e. Different.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

fish
ἰχθύων (ichthyōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2486: A fish. Of uncertain affinity; a fish.

another.
ἄλλη (allē)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 243: Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; 'else, ' i.e. Different.


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