1 Corinthians 15:45

Translations

Modern

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

Traditional

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

Literal

So also it has been written: “The first man Adam became into a living soul;” the last Adam into a life-giving spirit.

Latin

Factus est primus homo Adam in animam viventem, novissimus Adam in spiritum vivificantem.

Original

Greek

English

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

Notes

1 Corinthians 15:45–46

Just as Christ's life-giving Spirit goes beyond natural life, the spiritual body will replace the physical body.

1 Corinthians 15:45–49

Adam and Christ created two different groups of people. One group is natural and earthly, bound by sin and death. The other group is spiritual and heavenly, cleansed and meant for life. Adam symbolizes the natural, physical body, while Christ represents the spiritual, resurrected body. See also 15:21–22; Romans 5:12–21.

1 Corinthians 15:35–58

Paul talks about what resurrection bodies are like, possibly answering doubts. In the Greco-Roman world, people often believed the soul was immortal, but not that the body could rise again.

1 Corinthians 15:1–58

Some church members doubted a future resurrection of the dead. Paul reassures them and addresses their skeptical questions by discussing the nature of a resurrection body.

Theme notes and profiles

Adam and Eve Paul (Saul) God’s New Covenant Resurrection in the Old Testament Sin Enters the World The Coming of God’s Kingdom The Day Is Coming The Resurrection of Jesus The Resurrection of the Dead

Related verses

John 5:21
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Romans 8:2
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:10–11
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Romans 5:12–14
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
John 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 6:39–40
And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
John 6:57
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 6:33
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
1 Corinthians 15:47–49
The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
1 John 1:1–3
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.

People

Adam: The first man, created by God

Glossary

Adam (Person) Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Birthright Body Body of Christ Church Death Eschatology First Letter to the Corinthians Glorification Incarnation Intermediate State Life Man Man, Old and New Natural Man New Creation, New Creature Parousia Peter, the Apostle Place of the Dead Resurrection Second Adam Sleep Spirit of God Spirit of Jesus Christ Spiritual Gifts Transfiguration

Topics

Adam: A Name of Christ Adam: The First Man: Brought Sin Into the World Adam: The First Man: Creation of Body: Resurrection of Immortality: General Scriptures Concerning Jesus, the Christ: Names, Appellations, and Titles of: Adam Jesus, the Christ: Perfections of not Classified Under Foregoing Topics Man: Created: A Living Soul Quickening of God's People by the Son Resurrection: General Scriptures Concerning The Resurrection is not Contrary to Reason Titles and Names of Christ: Adam, Second Types of Christ: Adam Types of the Saviour: Adam

1 Corinthians 15:45

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