1 Corinthians 15:36
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?”
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
- KJV
- Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
- WEB
- You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
- ASV
- Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:
- DARBY
- Fool; what *thou* sowest is not quickened unless it die.
- BLB
- You Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
- ÅB
- Du dåre! det du sår, blir ikke levendegjort uten det dør.
- OTB
- Dumme! Det du planter kommer ikke til liv med mindre det dør;
- B1930
- Du dåre! det du sår, blir ikke levendegjort uten det dør.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 12:24
Truly, 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.
Read in contextLuke 11:40
You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
Read in contextLuke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
Read in contextEphesians 5:15
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
Read in contextRomans 1:22
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
Read in contextLuke 24:25
Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
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