1 Corinthians 15:38
Good News Translation
God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body.

New Revised Standard Version
But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

Contemporary English Version
This is because God gives everything the kind of body he wants it to have.

New American Bible
but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.

1 Corinthians 3:7 Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

Genesis 1:11,12 And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. . . .

Psalm 104:14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Mark 4:26-29 And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, . . .

Context
The Resurrection Body
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. 38But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body. 39All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:11
And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.

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.

1 Corinthians 15:39
All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men, another of beasts, other of birds, another of fishes.

1 Corinthians 15:37
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