32. If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus, what have I gained according to the way people look at things? If the dead are not brought back to life, “Let’s eat and drink because tomorrow we’re going to die!”
33. Don’t let anyone deceive you. Associating with bad people will ruin decent people.
34. Come back to the right point of view, and stop sinning. Some people don’t know anything about God. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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.
42. That is how it will be when the dead come back to life. When the body is planted, it decays. When it comes back to life, it cannot decay.
43. When the body is planted, it doesn’t have any splendor and is weak. When it comes back to life, it has splendor and is strong.
44. It is planted as a physical body. It comes back to life as a spiritual body. As there is a physical body, so there is also a spiritual body.