📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 15:36
What does 1 Corinthians 15:36 mean?
"You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies."
— 1 Corinthians 15:36 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.
But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
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