1 Corinthians 15:38 BSB

1 Corinthians 15:38

But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

KJV

But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But God giveth it a body - And is there any other way of accounting for it but by the miraculous working of God’s power? For out of that one bare grain is produced a system of roots, a tall and vigorous stalk, with all its appendages of leaves, etc., besides the full corn in the ear; the whole making several hundred times the quantum of what was originally deposited.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	But	G1161 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
δίδωσιν	didōsin	gives	G1325 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to it	G846 →
σῶμα	sōma	a body	G4983 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
ἠθέλησεν	ēthelēsen	He has willed	G2309 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἑκάστῳ	hekastō	to each	G1538 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
σπερμάτων	spermatōn	seeds	G4690 →
ἴδιον	idion	[its] own	G2398 →
σῶμα.¶	sōma	body.	G4983 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
leads to
- John 15:5
  I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
- Galatians 6:3
  If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9
  But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…
- Psalms 115:1
  Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
Through
Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
leads to
- Psalms 136:25
  He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 147:8–9
  who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Through
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:9
  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- Mark 4:26–32
  Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.