1 Corinthians 15:38

Giveth it; the seed sown.

To every seed his own body; so that each grain preserves its identity, wheat producing wheat, and barley, barley. In this illustration three things are to be noticed: first, the seed sown is not quickened into a new plant except it die, that is, be itself dissolved and perish, as it always does in germination; secondly, the new plant with its seed is not the grain itself that was sown; yet, thirdly, it is the same in kind, and thus preserves its identity, each seed reproducing its own body. So the heavenly body that shall spring from the death of this earthly body, though not that body of flesh and blood that was sown in the grave, shall yet be the same body in such a sense that at the resurrection every one shall receive again his own body.