1 Corinthians 15:36

You foolish person! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies!

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In The King James Version

Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

In Context

35Someone, however, may ask ‘How do the dead rise? And in what body will they come?’

37And when you sow, you sow not the body that will be, but a mere grain – perhaps of wheat, or something else.

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Cross References

Luke 11:40Fools! Did not the maker of the outside make the inside too?

Luke 24:25Then Jesus said to them, “Foolish men, slow to accept all that the prophets have said!

Romans 1:22Professing to be wise, they showed themselves fools;

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:36-51

The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,… Read the whole commentary →

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