1 Corinthians 15:35-41

New International Reader's Version

The Body That Rises From the Dead

³⁵ But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have?” ³⁶ How foolish! What you plant doesn’t come to life unless it dies. ³⁷ When you plant something, it isn’t a completely grown plant that you put in the ground. You only plant a seed. Maybe it’s wheat or something else. ³⁸ But God gives the seed a body just as he has planned. And to each kind of seed he gives its own body. ³⁹ Not all earthly creatures are the same. People have one kind of body. Animals have another. Birds have another kind. Fish have still another. ⁴⁰ There are also heavenly bodies as well as earthly bodies. Heavenly bodies have one kind of glory. Earthly bodies have another. ⁴¹ The sun has one kind of glory. The moon has another kind. The stars have still another. And one star’s glory is different from that of another star.