1 Corinthians 15:36

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

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

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

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

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.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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

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

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?