1 Corinthians 15:36

KJV1611 – Modern English

Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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  • John 12:24 : 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
  • Eph 5:15 : 15 See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,
  • Luke 11:40 : 40 Fools, did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 Then he said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 86%

    37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.

    38 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

  • 35 But someone will say, 'How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?'

  • 76%

    24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

    25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

  • Gal 6:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

    8 For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  • 73%

    42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption:

    43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

    44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

  • 20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?

  • John 4:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

    37 For in this the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.

  • Mark 4:26-28
    3 verses
    71%

    26 And he said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

    27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he does not know how.

    28 For the earth yields fruit by itself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

  • 6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

  • 14 The sower sows the word.

  • 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

  • Mark 4:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

    7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

  • 22 The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

  • 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.

  • 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • 17 Do not be overly wicked, nor be foolish; why should you die before your time?

  • 8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

  • 29 No, he answered, because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.

  • 12 So then, death works in us, but life in you.

  • 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • 63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, they are spirit, and they are life.

  • 9 And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.

  • 50 Now this I say, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

  • 6 The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

  • 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

  • 23 Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

  • Matt 13:5-7
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    68%

    5 Some fell on rocky places, where there was not much soil, and they immediately sprang up because the soil was shallow.

    6 But when the sun came up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

    7 Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

  • 12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

  • 4 He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

  • 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

  • 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

  • 26 You shall come to your grave at a full age, like a sheaf of grain comes in its season.

  • Prov 26:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

    5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.

  • 5 The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

  • 5 I tell you, No: but unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish.