1 Corinthians 15:37

NETBible

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed 1  – perhaps of wheat or something else.

NIV ©

When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

NASB ©

and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

NLT ©

And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a dry little seed of wheat or whatever it is you are planting.

MSG ©

We do have a parallel experience in gardening. You plant a "dead" seed; soon there is a flourishing plant. There is no visual likeness between seed and plant.

BBE ©

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;

NRSV ©

And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.

NKJV ©

And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain––perhaps wheat or some other grain .

KJV
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NASB ©
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NET [draft] ITL
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NETBible

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed 1  – perhaps of wheat or something else.

NET Notes

1 tn Grk “and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed.”