₃₅Someone will ask, “How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?” ₃₆You fool! When you sow a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies. ₃₇And what you sow is a bare seed, perhaps a grain of wheat or some other grain, not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up. ₃₈God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body.

₄₂This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal. ₄₃When buried, it is ugly and weak; when raised, it will be beautiful and strong. ₄₄When buried, it is a physical body; when raised, it will be a spiritual body. There is, of course, a physical body, so there has to be a spiritual body. ₄₅For the scripture says, “The first man, Adam, was created a living being”; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit. ₄₆It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. ₄₇The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven. ₄₈Those who belong to the earth are like the one who was made of earth; those who are of heaven are like the one who came from heaven. ₄₉Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.

₅₀What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God's Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.