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1 Corinthians 15:38
1 Corinthians 15:38 is verse 38 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
King James Version
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
World English Bible
But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
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1 Corinthians 15:36–40 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
Genesis 1:11Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:12The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Mark 4:26Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
Mark 4:27Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
Mark 4:28All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.
Mark 4:29And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”