37. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.
38. But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
39. All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.
40. And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.
41. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.
42. It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is 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 also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46. However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
47. The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
48. Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.
49. And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50. Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51. Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed –
52. in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
54. Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”