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

³⁸ 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

³⁸ but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ 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)

³⁸ but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Common English Bible

³⁸ God gives it the sort of shape that he chooses, and he gives each of the seeds its own shape.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ 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

³⁸ 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.