1 Corinthians 15:36

A Conservative Version

Thou foolish man, what thou sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat that falls into the ground dies, it remains alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?

Therefore watch carefully how ye walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

And he said to them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets spoke.

But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

And what thou sow, thou do not sow the body that it will become, but a bare grain, if it may happen of wheat, or of some other kind.

But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground,