37When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.


In Context

34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God--I say this to your shame.

35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"

36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.

1st Corinthians 15:37 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:37And 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: ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be; but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:37and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:37And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the rest:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:37and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain; it may be of wheat, or of some other grain:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:37That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:37and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:37And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be, but bore grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: