1 Corinthians 15:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Nor is the seed you sow then the body which it is going to have [later], but it is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or some of the rest of the grains.

American Standard Version (1901)

and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;

Common English Bible

What you put in the ground doesn’t have the shape that it will have, but it’s a bare grain of wheat or some other seed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And what you sow is not the body that will be in the future, but a bare grain, such as of wheat, or of some other grain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be; but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

1 Corinthians 15:37 Cross References

Leviticus 11:37

If any part of their carcass falls upon any seed set aside for sowing, it is clean,

Mark 4:27

and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.

1 Corinthians 15:36

Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

1 Corinthians 15:38

But God gives it a body as he has chosen and to each kind of seed its own body.

2 Corinthians 2:14

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him.