1 Corinthians 15:36-44

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.