33 This is the result, as the tragic poet says, of that “bad company that doth corrupt the good.”
34 There are those in your midst who have no knowledge of God. Protect yourselves against their influence.
35 And now you ask me, How? What is that body which dies not, but comes again?
36 How can flesh and blood not perish for ever, but live on immortal? Does it seem so impossible?
37 Yet even in nature we see the seed buried in the ground, becoming a shrivelled extinct husk,
38 and out of that decay and dissolution springs the new body which the eternal power of God shapes and forms.
39 We see every type and pattern of shape and form given to various existences as their bodies, we see the elements of flesh and blood taking on the form of every type of being, man, beast, fish, bird — all distinct and separate entities with appropriate bodies.