1 Corinthians 15:35–44

³⁵But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what manner of body shall they come?

³⁶Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

³⁷And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

³⁸But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes.

⁴⁰And there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

⁴¹One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

⁴²So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

⁴³It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness: it shall rise in power.

⁴⁴It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is written: