1 Corinthians 15:36

The Scriptures 1998

Senseless one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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“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.

“Mindless ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

See then that you walk exactly, not as unwise, but as wise,

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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

“But Elohim said to him, ‘You mindless one! This night your life shall be demanded from you. And who shall own what you have prepared?’

And as to what you sow: you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, it might be wheat or some other grain.

But do you wish to know, O foolish man, that the belief without the works is dead?

Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,