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1 Corinthians 15:36

Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

KJV

ἄφρων, σὺ ὃ σπείρεις, οὐ ζῳοποιεῖται ἐὰν μὴ ἀποθάνῃ·

Greek NT

Insipiens, tu quod seminas non vivificatur, nisi prius moriatur :

Vulgate

Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:

ASV

Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

ζωοποιέω
zoopoieo
verb · 11×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σπείρω
speiro
verb · 53×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἄφρων
aphron
adjective · 11×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἄφρων | WH/Treg/NIV: ἄφρων | RP: Ἄφρον
  • ἄφρωνSBLGNT
  • ἄφρωνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἌφρονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§646Christ's Resurrection was not a return to earthly life, as was the case with the raisings from the dead that he had performed before Easter: Jairus' daughter, the young man of Naim, Lazarus. These actions were miraculous events, but the persons miraculously raised returned by Jesus' power to ordinary earthly life. At some particular moment they would die again. Christ's Resurre…
§999How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself";551 but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, "all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a "spiritual body":552 But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind…
Inasmuch as Christ did rise in our flesh, it follows that we shall be also raised in the same; since the resurrection promised to us should not be referred to spirits naturally immortal, but to bodies in themselves mortal. 1. In the same manner, therefore, as Christ did rise in the substance of flesh, and pointed out to His disciples the mark of the nails and the opening in His…
2. And ye indeed say that you know even His substance, but that the Son not even the day, the Son, who is always in the bosom of the Father; and yet His substance is much greater than the days, even infinitely greater. How then, while assigning to yourselves the greater things, do you not allow even the less to the Son, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…
Chapter 20.—What the Same Apostle Taught in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead. But the apostle has said nothing here regarding the resurrection of the dead; but in his first Epistle to the Thessalonians he says, “We would not have you to be ignorant brethren, concerning them which are asleep,”14081408 1 Thess. iv. 13–16. etc. These wo…

Cross-references

  • Col 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
  • Job 14:8 — Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
  • John 12:24 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
  • John 12:24 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
  • Luke 11:40 — Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
  • Luke 11:40 — Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?