38. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
39. Not all flesh is the same: people have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.
40. There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendour of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendour of the earthly bodies is another.
41. The sun has one kind of splendour, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendour.
42. So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;
43. it is sown in dishonour, 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’; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
46. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.
47. The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.