it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, ¹ 

senseless, covenant-breakers, ¹  heartless, ruthless.

If these men die a natural death, ¹  or if they share the fate ²  of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women ¹  and were inflamed in their passions ²  for one another. Men ³  committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ¹  who gazes at his own face ²  in a mirror.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

Such ¹  wisdom does not come ²  from above but is earthly, natural, ³  demonic.

These people are divisive, ¹  worldly, ²  devoid of the Spirit. ³ 

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull ¹  nor had his vitality ²  departed.

The unbeliever ¹  does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal. ¹ 

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, ¹  or the body of someone who died of natural causes, ²  or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ³ 

He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes ¹  or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

– children not born ¹  by human parents ²  or by human desire ³  or a husband’s ⁴  decision, ⁵  but by God.

(Now Jesus had been talking about ¹  his death, but they ²  thought he had been talking about real sleep.) ³ 

But ¹  these men, ²  like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed ³  – do not understand whom ⁴  they are insulting, and consequently ⁵  in their destruction they will be destroyed, ⁶