But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
Parallel translations
- KJV But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
- BSB But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
- NKJV But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.
- NASB But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
- NLT Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have. A different plant grows from each kind of seed.
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Cross-references · 5
- 1 Cor 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
- Isa 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
- Mark 4:26–29He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
- Gen 1:11–12God 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.
- Ps 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
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