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.
40 On the same principle the form of body appropriate to the heavenly and spiritual things of God's creation is quite other than those which we see clothing things on earth. The things on earth all have their own special beauties, forms, types and their own splendour. And when we come to that which is spiritual and heavenly, we find that that too has its own appropriate expression and glory.