1 Corinthians 15:36

Modern English Version

You fool! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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

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

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This night your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

He said to them, “O fools! And slow of heart to believe what the prophets have spoken!

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

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

When you sow, you do not sow the body that shall be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise men,

But do you want to be shown, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?