1 Corinthians 15:36

English Standard Version 2016

You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

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

You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,