1 Corinthians 15:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But God gives to it the body that He plans and sees fit, and to each kind of seed a body of its own. [Gen. 1:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Common English Bible

God gives it the sort of shape that he chooses, and he gives each of the seeds its own shape.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For God gives it a body according to his will, and according to each seed's proper body.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

1 Corinthians 15:38 Cross References

Psalm 104:14

You cause the grass to grow for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to bring forth food from the earth

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its shoots and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

1 Corinthians 15:37

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.

1 Corinthians 15:39

Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.