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1 Corinthians 15:37

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

KJV

καὶ ὃ σπείρεις, οὐ τὸ σῶμα τὸ γενησόμενον σπείρεις ἀλλὰ γυμνὸν κόκκον εἰ τύχοι σίτου ἤ τινος τῶν λοιπῶν·

Greek NT

et quod seminas, non corpus, quod futurum est, seminas, sed nudum granum, ut puta tritici, aut alicujus ceterorum.

Vulgate

and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;

ASV

And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
γυμνός
gumnos
adjective · 15×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κόκκος
kokkos
noun · 7×
λοιποί
loipoi
adjective · 54×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σπείρω
speiro
verb · 53×
σῖτος
sitos
noun · 14×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
τυγχάνω
tugchano
verb · 12×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
e
particle · 346×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Historic Christian voices

5 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…

Cross-references

  • Mark 4:27 — And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.