1 Corinthians 15:35-50

35But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body will they come?”

36You fool! Every time you plant seed you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up and growing] unless it first dies.

37The seed you sow is not the body (the plant) which it is going to become, but it is a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other grain.

38But God gives it a body just as He planned, and to each kind of seed a body of its own [is given].

39All flesh is not the same. There is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

40There are also heavenly bodies [sun, moon and stars] and earthly bodies [humans, animals, and plants], but the glory and beauty of the heavenly is one kind, and the glory of the earthly is another.

41There is a glory and beauty of the sun, another glory of the moon, and yet another [distinctive] glory of the stars; and one star differs from another in glory and brilliance.

42So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The [human] body that is sown is perishable and mortal, it is raised imperishable and immortal.

43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength;

44it is sown a natural body [mortal, suited to earth], it is raised a spiritual body [immortal, suited to heaven]. As surely as there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

45So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life].

46However, the spiritual [the immortal life] is not first, but the physical [the mortal life]; then the spiritual.

47The first man [Adam] is from the earth, earthy [made of dust]; the second Man [Christ, the Lord] is from heaven.

48As is the earthly man [the man of dust], so are those who are of earth; and as is the heavenly [Man], so are those who are of heaven.

49Just as we have borne the image of the earthly [the man of dust], we will also bear the image of the heavenly [the Man of heaven].

50Now I say this, believers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit nor be part of the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (mortal) inherit the imperishable (immortal).