1 Corinthians 15:37

The Resurrection Body

36You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.37And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.38But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

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Berean Standard Bible
And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
American Standard Version (1901)
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;
Bible in Basic English
And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;
Douay-Rheims 1899
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.
Free Bible Version
When you sow, you don't sow the plant it will grow into, just the bare seed, whether wheat or whatever you're planting.
Geneva Bible 1599
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shalbe, but bare corne as it falleth, of wheat, or of some other.
King James (Authorized) Version
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:
Plain English Version
The thing you put into the ground was just a seed (maybe a wheat seed, or whatever). You don’t put the body of the plant in the ground, but just the seed.
Translation for Translators
A seed, such as a wheat seed, is very different from the plant that sprouts from it.
Unlocked Literal Bible
What you sow is not the body that will be, but a bare seed. It may become wheat or something else.
Noah Webster Bible
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain; it may be of wheat, or of some other grain :
World English Bible
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.
Young's Literal Translation
and that which thou dost sow, not the body that shall be dost thou sow, but bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the others,