Verse 38

But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so. 12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
• Ps 104:14 : 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
• Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.
• Mark 4:26-29 : 26 And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth, 27 And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how. 28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain. 29 But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.
• 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.