Parallel Verses

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.

Holman Bible

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving 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 it is sown a natural body, it shall be raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 Howbeit the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and afterward, that which is spiritual.


Cross References

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ, Jesus, has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Genesis 2:7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

John 5:21

For as the Father raises up the dead and gives them life; even so the Son gives life unto whom he will.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is he who descended from heaven and gives life unto the world.

John 6:57

As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eats me, he shall also live by me.

John 1:4

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 4:14

but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.

John 6:39-40

And this is the Father's will who has sent me, that of all whom he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again in the last day.

John 6:54

Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:68

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

John 10:10

The thief comes not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy the sheep; I am come that they might have life and that they might have it in abundance.

John 14:6

Jesus said unto him, I AM the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes unto the Father, but by me.

Acts 3:15

and killed the Author of life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

Romans 8:10-11

But if Christ is in you, the body is truly dead because of sin, but the Spirit is alive because of righteousness.

1 John 1:1-3

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life

John 5:25-29

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour shall come, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.

John 6:63

The Spirit is he that gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken unto you, they are Spirit and they are life.

John 10:28

and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of my hand.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, though he is dead, yet shall he live;

John 14:19

Yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more, but ye shall see me; because I live, ye shall live also.

John 17:2-3

as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.

Romans 5:17

For if by one offense, death reigned because of one man; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of gifts and of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus the Christ.

Romans 5:21

so that in the same manner as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:47-49

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord of heaven.

Philippians 3:21

Who shall transform our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is also able to subdue all things unto himself.

Colossians 3:4

When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also be manifested with him in glory.

1 John 5:11-12

And this is the witness, that God has given eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son.

Revelation 16:3

And the second angel poured out his vial into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died in the sea.

Revelation 21:6

And he said unto me, It is done. I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:1

And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Revelation 22:17

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is thirsty come; and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely.

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