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.
47. The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven.
48. As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly, and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly.
49. Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.
50. This I declare, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
52. in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53. For that which is corruptible must clothe itself with incorruptibility, and that which is mortal must clothe itself with immortality.
54. And when this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about:“Death is swallowed up in victory.
55. Where, O death, is your victory?Where, O death, is your sting?”