Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.
New American Standard Bible
But God gives it a body just as He wished, and
King James Version
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Holman Bible
But God gives it a body as He wants,
International Standard Version
But God gives the plant the form he wants it to have, and to each kind of seed its own form.
A Conservative Version
But God gives it a body as he wills, and to each of the seeds its own body.
American Standard Version
but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
Amplified
But God gives it a body just as He planned, and to each kind of seed a body of its own [is given].
An Understandable Version
But God gives it the [kind of] body He wants [it to have], so each seed gets its own plant.
Anderson New Testament
but God gives it a body, as it pleases him; and to every seed, its proper body.
Bible in Basic English
But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.
Common New Testament
But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but God gives it such a body, as he thinks fit, to every seed its peculiar body.
Godbey New Testament
but God gives it a body as he wished; and to each of the seeds its own body.
Goodspeed New Testament
and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.
John Wesley New Testament
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to each of the seeds, its own body.
Julia Smith Translation
And God gives it a body as he would, and to each of the seed its own body.
King James 2000
But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed its own body.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and to each one of the seeds its own body.
Modern King James verseion
And God gives it a body as it has pleased Him, and to each of the seeds its own body.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and God giveth it a body at his pleasure, to every seed a several body.
Moffatt New Testament
God gives it a body as he pleases, gives each kind of seed a body of its own.
Montgomery New Testament
But God gives it what body he pleases, and to each kind of seed its own body.
NET Bible
But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
New Heart English Bible
But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
Noyes New Testament
but God giveth it a body, as he willed, and to every seed its own body.
Sawyer New Testament
but God gives it a body as he pleases, and to each of the grains its own body.
The Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, God, giveth it a body, as he pleased, and, unto each of the seeds, a body of its own.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
but God giveth it a body as he pleaseth, and to each of the seeds its peculiar body.
Twentieth Century New Testament
God gives it the body that he pleases-to each seed its special body.
Webster
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed its own body.
Weymouth New Testament
and to each kind of seed a body of its own.
Williams New Testament
but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body.
World English Bible
But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
Worrell New Testament
but God giveth it a body, even as He willed, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
Worsley New Testament
and God giveth it a body as He pleaseth, and to every one of the seeds it's own body.
Youngs Literal Translation
and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.
Themes
Body » What type of bodies there are
Botany » Laws of nature in the vegetable kingdom uniform in action
The Resurrection » Is not contrary to reason
Seed » Sowing, illustrative of » The burial of the body
Seed » Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed
Seed » Each kind of, has its own body
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 15:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
37 And what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain: it may be of wheat, or some one of the rest: 38 and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body. 39 Every flesh is not the same flesh, but one is of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.
Cross References
Genesis 1:11-12
And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.
Psalm 104:14
He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as a garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Mark 4:26-29
And he said, Thus is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast the seed upon the earth,
1 Corinthians 3:7
So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase.