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But someone will ask, 1"How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
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You foolish person! 2What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
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And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
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But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
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For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
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There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
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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.
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3So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
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It is sown in dishonor; 4it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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Thus it is written, 5"The first man Adam became a living being";6the last Adam became a 7life-giving spirit.
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But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
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8The first man was from the earth, 9a man of dust; 10the second man is from heaven.
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As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, 11so also are those who are of heaven.
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Just 12as we have borne the image of the man of dust, 13we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.