32. From a human point of view, what good does it do me if I fought wild animals in Ephesus? If the dead aren’t raised, let’s eat and drink because tomorrow we’ll die.
33. Don’t be deceived, bad company corrupts good character.
34. Sober up by acting like you should and don’t sin. Some of you are ignorant about God—I say this because you should be ashamed of yourselves!
35. But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come back?"
36. Look, fool! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t come back to life unless it dies.
37. What you put in the ground doesn’t have the shape that it will have, but it’s a bare grain of wheat or some other seed.
38. God gives it the sort of shape that he chooses, and he gives each of the seeds its own shape.
39. All flesh isn’t alike. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals have another kind of flesh, birds have another kind of flesh, and fish have another kind.
40. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The heavenly bodies have one kind of glory, and the earthly bodies have another kind of glory.
41. The sun has one kind of glory, the moon has another kind of glory, and the stars have another kind of glory (but one star is different from another star in its glory).
42. It’s the same with the resurrection of the dead: a rotting body is put into the ground, but what is raised won’t ever decay.
43. It’s degraded when it’s put into the ground, but it’s raised in glory. It’s weak when it’s put into the ground, but it’s raised in power.
44. It’s a physical body when it’s put into the ground, but it’s raised as a spiritual body. If there’s a physical body, there’s also a spiritual body.
45. So it is also written, The first human, Adam, became a living person, and the last Adam became a spirit that gives life.
46. But the physical body comes first, not the spiritual one—the spiritual body comes afterward.
47. The first human was from the earth made from dust; the second human is from heaven.
48. The nature of the person made of dust is shared by people who are made of dust, and the nature of the heavenly person is shared by heavenly people.
49. We will look like the heavenly person in the same way as we have looked like the person made from dust.
50. This is what I’m saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s kingdom. Something that rots can’t inherit something that doesn’t decay.
51. Listen, I’m telling you a secret: All of us won’t die, but we will all be changed—