1 Corinthians 15:36
Good News Translation
You fool! When you plant a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies.

New Revised Standard Version
Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be foolish. A seed must die before it can sprout from the ground.

New American Bible
You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

fool.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke 24:25 Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things, Which the prophets have spoken.

Romans 1:22 For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

Ephesians 5:15 See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,

that.

John 12:24 Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,

Context
The Resurrection Body
35But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what manner of body shall they come? 36Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first. 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.…
Cross References
Luke 11:40
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also that which is within?

John 12:24
Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,

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

James 2:20
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

1 Corinthians 15:35
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