1 Corinthians 15:38 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth:

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

1 Corinthians 15:37

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;

1 Corinthians 15:39

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.