35. But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have?”
36. These are stupid questions. When you plant something, it must die in the ground before it can live and grow.
37. And when you plant something, what you plant does not have the same “body” that it will have later. What you plant is only a seed, maybe wheat or something else.
38. But God gives it the body that he has planned for it, and he gives each kind of seed its own body.
39. All things made of flesh are not the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have yet another kind.
40. Also there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the beauty of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the beauty of the earthly bodies is another.
41. The sun has one kind of beauty, the moon has another kind, and the stars have another. And each star is different in its beauty.
42. It will be the same when those who have died are raised to life. The body that is “planted” in the grave will ruin and decay, but it will be raised to a life that cannot be destroyed.
43. When the body is “planted,” it is without honor. But when it is raised, it will be great and glorious. When the body is “planted,” it is weak. But when it is raised, it will be full of power.
44. The body that is “planted” is a physical body. When it is raised, it will be a spiritual body. There is a physical body. So there is also a spiritual body.
45. As the Scriptures say, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
46. The spiritual man did not come first. It was the physical man that came first; then came the spiritual.