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1 Corinthians 15:36
1 Corinthians 15:36 is verse 36 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
King James Version
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
World English Bible
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
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1 Corinthians 15:34–38 · Berean Standard Bible
34 Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
36 You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37 And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
38 But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
Luke 24:25Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Romans 1:22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
Ephesians 5:15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
John 12:24Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.