1 Corinthians 15:38

WEB

³⁸But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

KJV

³⁸But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

BSB

³⁸But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

FBV

³⁸God makes the plant grow into the form he has chosen, and different seeds produce different plants with different forms.

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 3:7

⁷So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Isaiah 61:11

¹¹For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

²⁶He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, ²⁷and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. ²⁸For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. ²⁹But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Psalms 104:14

¹⁴He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Genesis 1:11-12

¹¹God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. ¹²The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.