1 Corinthians 15:35–44

³⁵But some one will say, ‘How do the dead rise? ³⁶unwise! thou—what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die; ³⁷and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others, ³⁸and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body. ³⁹All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds; ⁴⁰and there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one is the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly; ⁴¹one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory. ⁴²So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; ⁴³it is sown in dishonour, 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;