Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

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

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.

International Standard Version

This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

A Conservative Version

And so it is written, The first man Adam developed into a living soul. The last Adam a life giving spirit.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life].

An Understandable Version

So, it is also written [Gen. 2:7], "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam [i.e., Christ], became the Spirit who gives [never ending] life. [See John 5:21].

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

Darby Translation

Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.

Godbey New Testament

As indeed it has been written; The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last man Adam, a life-creating spirit.

Goodspeed New Testament

This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

Modern King James verseion

And so it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul," the last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

As it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul," and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit:

Moffatt New Testament

Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

Montgomery New Testament

Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

NET Bible

So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living person"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

Thus is it also written: "The first man Adam became a living soul;" the last Adam a lifegiving spirit.

Sawyer New Testament

And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

Williams New Testament

This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

So also it has been written, "The first man Adam was a living soul"; the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

Worsley New Testament

And so it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." But the last Adam is an enlivening spirit.

Youngs Literal Translation

so also it hath been written, 'The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

so
οὕτω 
Houto 
Usage: 146

it is written
γράφω 
Grapho 
Usage: 149

The first
πρῶτος 
Protos 
Usage: 67

man
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

Ἀδάμ 
Adam 
Ἀδάμ 
Adam 
Usage: 9
Usage: 9

γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

a living
ζάω 
Zao 
live, be alive, alive, quick, lively, not tr, , vr live
Usage: 115

ψυχή 
Psuche 
Usage: 62

the last
ἔσχατος 
Eschatos 
Usage: 24

ζωοποιέω 
Zoopoieo 
Usage: 9

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 15:45

Devotionals containing 1 Corinthians 15:45

Images 1 Corinthians 15:45

Prayers for 1 Corinthians 15:45

Context Readings

Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body

44 sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.


Cross References

Romans 8:2

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

John 5:21

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

John 1:4

Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

John 4:14

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

John 6:39-40

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

John 6:54

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life.

John 10:10

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

John 14:6

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Acts 3:15

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

Romans 8:10-11

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

1 John 1:1-3

What was from the beginning,
what we have heard,
what we have seen with our eyes,
what we have observed
and have touched with our hands,
concerning the Word of life—

John 5:25-29

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

John 6:63

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

John 14:19

“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.

John 17:2-3

for You gave Him authority
over all flesh;
so He may give eternal life
to all You have given Him.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 5:17

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:47-49

The first man was from the earth
and made of dust;
the second man is from heaven.

Philippians 3:21

He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself.

Colossians 3:4

When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

1 John 5:11-12

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

Revelation 16:3

The second poured out his bowl into the sea. It turned to blood like a dead man’s, and all life in the sea died.

Revelation 21:6

And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water as a gift to the thirsty from the spring of life.

Revelation 22:1

Then he showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:17

Both the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Anyone who hears should say, “Come!” And the one who is thirsty should come. Whoever desires should take the living water as a gift.

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