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

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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)

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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.