³⁶ What a foolish question! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t grow into a plant unless it dies first.

²⁴ I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.

Living by the Spirit’s Power

¹⁵ So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.

²² Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.

²⁵ Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.

²⁰ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’

⁴⁰ Fools! Didn’t God make the inside as well as the outside?