New American Bible, Revised Edition

1 Corinthians 15:37-46 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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

38. but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body.

39. Not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for human beings, another kind of flesh for animals, another kind of flesh for birds, and another for fish.

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

41. The brightness of the sun is one kind, the brightness of the moon another, and the brightness of the stars another. For star differs from star in brightness.

42. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible.

43. It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful.

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

45. So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

46. But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual.