⁴¹ The sun has one kind of splendor,^(A) the moon another and the stars another;^(B) and star differs from star in splendor.

⁴² So will it be^(C) with the resurrection of the dead.^(D) The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;^{(E) 43} it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory;^(F) it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.^(G)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”^[a];^(H) the last Adam,^(I) a life-giving spirit.^{(J) 46} The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.^{(K) 47} The first man was of the dust of the earth;^(L) the second man is of heaven.^{(M) 48} As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.^{(N) 49} And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,^(O) so shall we^[b] bear the image of the heavenly man.^(P)

⁵⁰ I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood^(Q) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,^(R) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.^(S)