Philippians 3:21

21. Change The future destiny of the body involves a condemnation of the sensuality with which the “belly-worshippers” degraded and besotted it, and requires that it be kept in honour and purity. It is now, indeed, a vile body; that is, the body of our humiliation, our weakness, diseases, corruption, and mortality. It is to become like the body of glory of our ascended Lord. This passage, the purpose of which is to inculcate a pure life, incidentally supplies a key to some of the problems in the doctrine of the resurrection. The statement is general, and embraces both the dead and the living, describing the bodily transformation which will come upon all alike. We are to have a body like the risen and glorified body of Christ. It is not a substitution of one body for another; it is a change, but not an exchange.