1 Corinthians 15:38

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

But God gives it the [kind of] body He wants [it to have], so each seed gets its own plant.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:37

And what you yourself sow is not the plant that will [eventually] come up, but simply a seed. It may be a grain of wheat or something else.

1 Corinthians 15:39

All flesh is not the same [Note: The word “flesh” here refers to the material composition of matter, and in no way suggests anything sinful, as it does in many other places in Paul’s writings]. But mankind has one [kind of] flesh; animals have another kind; birds have another; and fish [still] another.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So then, it does not matter who plants or who waters, but [it is] God who matters, for He makes the seed grow.