1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man was of dust from the earth; the second man was the Lord from heaven.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
In Context
46And the spiritual was not first; but the animal, and then the spiritual.
Cross References
Luke 1:16And many of the children of Israel will he convert to the Lord their God.
John 3:12If I have spoken to you of things on earth, and ye believe not; how will ye believe, if I speak of things in heaven?
John 6:33For the bread of God is, he that came down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.
1 Corinthians 15:45So also is it written: " Adam, the first man, became a living soul;" the second Adam became a quickening spirit.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:36-51
The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,… Read the whole commentary →