Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have. A different plant grows from each kind of seed.
Parallel translations
- WEB But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
- 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.
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Quick answer
God gives each seed the body He chooses. It matters because the resurrection body is God's sovereign and fitting gift.
Overview
Paul attributes the seed's growth to God's wise design, who gives each kind its own body. This points to the resurrection as a work of God's power and pleasure, not human achievement. Believers can trust that the body God raises will be exactly what He wisely intends.
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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.
- 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.
- Mark 4:26–29He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
- 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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