32. If I fought wild animals in Ephesus only with human hopes, I have gained nothing. If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we will die.”
33. Do not be fooled: “Bad friends will ruin good habits.”
34. Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you do not know God—I say this to shame you.
35. But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have?”
36. Foolish person! When you sow a seed, it must die in the ground before it can live and grow.
37. And when you sow it, it does not have the same “body” it will have later. What you sow is only a bare seed, maybe wheat or something else.
38. But God gives it a body that he has planned for it, and God gives each kind of seed its own body.
39. All things made of flesh are not the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have another.