1 Corinthians 15:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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.

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  • 1 Cor 15:35-37
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    35But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

    36Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

    37And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

  • 1 Cor 15:39-44
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    39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes.

    40And there are bodies of heaven and bodies of earth, but the glory of the one is different from that of the other.

    41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

    42So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

    43It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

    44It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

  • 1 Cor 12:18-20
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    18But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

    19And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

    20But now they are all different parts, but one body.

  • 1 Cor 12:14-15
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    14For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

    15If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

  • 1 Cor 3:6-9
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    6I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

    7So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

    8Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

    9For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

  • 1 Cor 12:11-12
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    11But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.

    12For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

    27And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

    28The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

  • Gal 6:8
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    8Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

  • 1 Cor 12:23-25
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    23And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

    24But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

    25So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

    5So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11And 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.

    12And 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:7
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    7It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.

  • 1 Cor 15:48-50
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    48Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.

    49And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

    50Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

  • Gen 1:29-30
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    29And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

    30And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

  • 1 Cor 15:23
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    23But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

  • John 4:37
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    37In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

  • Jas 1:18
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    18Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

  • 1 Cor 12:6
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    6And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.

  • Phil 3:21
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    21By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

  • Job 34:15
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    15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Eph 1:23
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    23Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

  • Eccl 11:5
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    5As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.