1 Corinthians 15:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

1 Corinthians 15:38 —

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1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Mark 4:26-29
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; …
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Genesis 1:11-12
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. …

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Atheism Attributes of God Body Botany Dead (people)Flowers God Guidance

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 35-50)

The apostle comes now to answer a plausible and principal objection against the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, concerning which observe the proposal of the objection: Some man will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? 1 Cor. 15:35. The objection is plainly two-fold. How are they raised up? that is, “By what means? How can they be raised? What power is equal…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. as it hath pleased him--at creation, when He gave to each of the (kinds of) seeds (so the Greek is for “to every seed”) a body of its own (Ge 1:11, “after its kind,” suited to its species). So God can and will give to the blessed at the resurrection their own appropriate body, such as it pleases Him, and such as is suitable to their glorified state: a body peculiar to the individual, substanti…