1 Corinthians 15:45

So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

In Context

44it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

46Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.

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Cross References

John 1:4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 4:14but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

John 5:25Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

John 6:39And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.

John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

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 →

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