1 Corinthians 15:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁶ Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ You foolish man! Every time you plant seed, you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up, and growing] unless it dies first.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:

Common English Bible

³⁶ Look, fool! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t come back to life unless it dies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ How foolish! What you sow cannot be brought back to life, unless it first dies.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

1 Corinthians 15:36 Cross References

Job 14:8

Though its root grows old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,

Luke 11:40

You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Luke 24:25

Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!

John 12:24

Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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.

Ephesians 5:15

Be careful, then, how you live, not as unwise people but as wise,

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?