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.
45. This is what Scripture says: “The first man, Adam, became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46. The spiritual does not come first, but the physical and then the spiritual.
47. The first man was made from the dust of the earth. He came from the earth. The second man came from heaven.