30. Why also are we putting ourselves at risk and in danger every hour?
31. Daily I die and that is as true a fact, Achim b'Moshiach, as it is that I glory over you in Moshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.
32. If it were a mere humanistic matter, my fighting, so to speak, with wild beasts in Ephesus (Ac 19; 2C 1:3 10), what do I gain? If there is no Techiyas HaMesim, "Let us eat and drink, KI MACHAR NAMUT "For tomorrow we die" YESHAYAH 22:13; 56:12).
33. Do not fall under a delusion. "Bad chavrusashaft (association, influence or hashpa'ah) corrupts good midos."
34. Wake up and come to your senses. Start walking in the derech tzaddikim (TEHILLIM 1:6). Stop committing averos. Some among you have no saving da'as of Hashem. I say this to your bushah (shame).
35. But someone will question, "How does this Techiyas HaMesim come about? And in the Techiyas HaMesim, with what kind of body will they come?" [YECHEZKEL 37:3]
36. Yold, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies!
37. And what is it you sow? Not the body that is to be, but something else: a bare zera (seed), efsher (perhaps) of wheat or some other grain.
38. However, Hashem chooses [another] body to give to the ["dead" and buried] seed, and to each kind of zera is given by Hashem its own body (Gn 1:11-13; 47:18-19).
39. Now basar is not all the same: Bnei Adam have one kind of basar; animals, another; birds, another; fish, another;
40. and there are gufot baShomayim (heavenly bodies), and gufot baAretz (earthly bodies), but the kavod of the heavenly is of one kind, and the kavod of the earthly of another kind.
41. There is one kavod (glory) of the shemesh (sun), and another kavod (glory) of the levanah (moon), and another kavod (glory) of the kochavim (stars), for in kavod (glory), kochav differs from kochav. [TEHILLIM 19:4-6; 8:1,3]
42. So also is the Techiyas HaMesim. That which is sown is of one kind, perishable; that which is raised up is of another kind, imperishable. [DANIEL 12:3]
43. What is sown without kavod is raised in kavod. What is sown in weakness is raised in ko'ach (power).
44. What is sown a natural body, is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
45. So, also, it has been written, VAY'HI HAADAM L'NEFESH CHAYYAH ("And the [first] Man became a living soul," BERESHIS 2:7); but the Adam haacharon (last Adam) became a Ruach mechayyeh (Yn 5:26).
46. But the spiritual body is not harishon, but the natural; then afterward the spiritual.
47. The Adam Harishon is AFAR MIN HA'ADAMAH ("dust from the earth, ground" BERESHIS 2:7), out of ha'aretz. The Adam HaSheini (the second Adam) is out of Shomayim. [BERESHIS 2:7; 3:19; TEHILLIM 90:3]