42. This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal.
43. When buried, it is ugly and weak; when raised, it will be beautiful and strong.
44. When buried, it is a physical body; when raised, it will be a spiritual body. There is, of course, a physical body, so there has to be a spiritual body.
45. For the scripture says, “The first man, Adam, was created a living being”; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.
46. It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
47. The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.
48. Those who belong to the earth are like the one who was made of earth; those who are of heaven are like the one who came from heaven.