1 Corinthians 15:35-50

35But someone will ask, “How do the dead come back to life? With what kind of body will they come back?”

36You fool! The seed you plant doesn’t come to life unless it dies first.

37What you plant, whether it’s wheat or something else, is only a seed. It doesn’t have the form that the plant will have.

38God gives the plant the form he wants it to have. Each kind of seed grows into its own form.

39Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.

40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. Heavenly bodies don’t all have the same splendor, neither do earthly bodies.

41The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon has another kind of splendor, and the stars have still another kind of splendor. Even one star differs in splendor from another star.

42That is how it will be when the dead come back to life. When the body is planted, it decays. When it comes back to life, it cannot decay.

43When the body is planted, it doesn’t have any splendor and is weak. When it comes back to life, it has splendor and is strong.

44It is planted as a physical body. It comes back to life as a spiritual body. As there is a physical body, so there is also a spiritual body.

45This is what Scripture says: “The first man, Adam, became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46The spiritual does not come first, but the physical and then the spiritual.

47The first man was made from the dust of the earth. He came from the earth. The second man came from heaven.

48The people on earth are like the man who was made from the dust of the earth. The people in heaven are like the man who came from heaven.

49As we have worn the likeness of the man who was made from the dust of the earth, we will also wear the likeness of the man who came from heaven.

50Brothers and sisters, this is what I mean: Flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom. What decays cannot inherit what doesn’t decay.