1 Corinthians 15:38
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
KJV
ὁ δὲ θεὸς δίδωσιν αὐτῷ σῶμα καθὼς ἠθέλησεν, καὶ ἑκάστῳ τῶν σπερμάτων ἴδιον σῶμα.
Greek NT
Deus autem dat illi corpus sicut vult : ut unicuique seminum proprium corpus.
Vulgate
but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
ASV
But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its proper body.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
σπέρμα
sperma
noun · 44×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ἕκαστος
ekastos
adjective · 84×
ἴδιος
idios
adjective · 114×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: δίδωσιν αὐτῷ | WH/Treg/NIV: δίδωσιν αὐτῷ | RP: αὐτῷ δίδωσιν
- δίδωσιν αὐτῷ — SBLGNT
- δίδωσιν αὐτῷ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- αὐτῷ δίδωσιν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἴδιον | WH/Treg/NIV: ἴδιον | RP: τὸ ἴδιον
- ἴδιον — SBLGNT
- ἴδιον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τὸ ἴδιον — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
6 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…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210232.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 25.—That God Alone is the Creator of Every Kind of Creature, Whatever Its Nature or Form. For whereas there is one form which is given from without to every bodily substance,—such as the form which is constructed by potters and smiths, and that class of artists who paint and fashion forms like the body of animals,—but another and internal form which is not itself constr…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:7 — So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
- 1Cor 15:35 — But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
- Isa 61:11 — For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the na
- Mark 4:26 — And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;