The Resurrection Body

35 But someone will ask, “How {are} the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow [is] not the body that will be, but [just] a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else. 38 But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each [kind] of seed [He gives] its own body.

39 Not all flesh [is] the same: Men [have] one [kind of] flesh, animals [have] another birds another and fish another. 40 [There are] also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly [bodies] [is of] one [degree], and [the splendor] of the earthly [bodies] [is of] another. 41 [The] sun [has] one [degree of] splendor, [the] moon another and [the] stars another and star differs from star in splendor.

42 So [will it be] with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown [is] perishable; it is raised imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [body]. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”;[fn] the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

46 The spiritual, however, [was] not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man [was] of the dust of [the] earth, the second man from heaven. 48 As [was] the earthly [man], so also [are] those who are of the earth; and as [is] the heavenly [man], so also [are] those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly [man], so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly [man].