We Will Have Bodies That Will Not Decay

³⁵ But someone will ask, “How do the dead come back to life? With what kind of body will they come back?”

³⁶ You fool! The seed you plant doesn’t come to life unless it dies first. ³⁷ What you plant, whether it’s wheat or something else, is only a seed. It doesn’t have the form that the plant will have. ³⁸ God gives the plant the form he wants it to have. Each kind of seed grows into its own form. ³⁹ Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have still another. ⁴⁰ There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. Heavenly bodies don’t all have the same splendor, neither do earthly bodies. ⁴¹ The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon has another kind of splendor, and the stars have still another kind of splendor. Even one star differs in splendor from another star.