Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
Fool - with all thy boasted philosophy (Psalms 14:1).
That which thou - appeal to the objector's own experience: 'The seed which thou thyself х su (G4771)] sowest.' Paul, in this verse and 1 Corinthians 15:42, answers 1 Corinthians 15:35, "How?" and in 1 Corinthians 15:37-41; 1 Corinthians 15:43, 'With what kind of body?' He converts the very objection (the death of the natural body) into an argument. Death, so far from preventing quickening, is the necessary prelude of it, just as the seed "is not quickened" into a new sprout, with increased produce, "except it die" (suffer a dissolution of its previous organization). Christ by His death for us has not reprieved us from death of the life we have from Adam; nay, He permits the law to take its course on our flesh, but brings from Himself new and heavenly life out of death (1 Corinthians 15:37).