1 Corinthians 15:36-50

36You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

38But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

39For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.

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

42So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

45Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.

47The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

48As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

49Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

50I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.