Verse 38

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

Referenced Verses

• Gen 1:11-12 : 11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so. 12 The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
• Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
• Isa 61:11 : 11 For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the Sovereign LORD will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.
• Mark 4:26-29 : 26 The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground. 27 He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”
• 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.