1 Corinthians 15:39

37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.

38 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind¹ of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

40 There are also¹ celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

42 ^aSo also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

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Because of what Christ did, now we can hope for the glory of God—a glory Paul describes here as celestial.

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There is no question in Paul's mind that there are celestial bodies. What is a celestial body? Many Bibles translate "celestial" as "heavenly." Paul is speaking about spirit bodies. He says plainly that spirits have bodies.

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