1 Corinthians 15:36

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Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 12:24 : 24 I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.
  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
  • Eph 5:15 : 15 Live Wisely Therefore consider carefully how you live– not as unwise but as wise,
  • Luke 11:40 : 40 You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 So he said to them,“You foolish people– how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

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  • 1 Cor 15:37-38
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    37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed– perhaps of wheat or something else.

    38But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

  • John 12:24-25
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    24I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

    25The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

  • Gal 6:7-8
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    7Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 15:42-44
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    42It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

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

    44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

  • Luke 12:20
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    20But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

  • John 4:36-37
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    36The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

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

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

    27He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

  • Mark 4:14
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    14The sower sows the word.

  • 1 Cor 15:53
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    53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

  • Mark 4:6-7
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    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

  • Matt 13:22
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    22The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • Rom 8:13
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    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.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise you might die before your time.

  • Job 14:8
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    8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

  • Matt 13:29
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    29But he said,‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • John 15:6
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    6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

  • John 6:63
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    63The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

  • Luke 13:9
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    9Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

  • 1 Cor 15:50
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    50Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

  • John 15:4
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    4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

  • 1 Pet 1:23
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    23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

  • Matt 13:5-7
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    5Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

    6But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

    7Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

  • 1 Cor 15:12
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    12No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

  • Jas 2:20
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    20But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

  • Matt 15:13
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    13And he replied,“Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

  • John 5:25
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    25I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

  • Job 5:26
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    26You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

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

  • 1 Cor 15:46
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    46However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.

  • Luke 13:5
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    5No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”