1 Corinthians 15:35–44

A Glorious Body

³⁵But someone will say, ^q“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” ³⁶Foolish one, ^rwhat you sow is not made alive unless it dies. ³⁷And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. ³⁸But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind ⁶of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

⁴⁰There are also ⁷celestial bodies and ⁸terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

^42sSo also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. ^43tIt is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.