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

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 and it is 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 How is it the first is not spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Cross References

Romans 8:2

The law of the Spirit gives us life through (with) (because of) Christ Jesus. It has set me free from the law of sin and death.

Genesis 2:7

Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

John 5:21

The Father raises the dead and gives them life. The Son also gives life to those he wills.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven. It gives life to the world.

John 6:57

The living Father sent me and I live because of the Father. He who takes me for his food will live because of me.

John 1:4

He lived and his life gives light to all people.

John 4:10

Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.

John 4:14

But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

John 6:39-40

This is the will of him that sent me that I should not lose any of those he has given me, but I should raise them up at the last day.

John 6:54

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life! I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of everlasting life!

John 10:10

The thief comes to steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 14:6

Jesus proclaimed: I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through me.

Acts 3:15

You killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead. We witnessed this!

Romans 8:10-11

If Christ is with you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.

1 John 1:1-3

We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life.

John 5:25-29

Truly I tell you, the hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear (listen) (understand) will live.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I spoke to you are spirit and life.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. He who puts active faith in me will live, even if he dies.

John 14:19

A little while and the world will not see me anymore, but you will. I live and you will also live.

John 17:2-3

You have given him authority over all flesh that he may give everlasting life to the ones whom you have given him.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

Romans 5:17

It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:21

And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:47-49

The first man is from the earth, earthy: the second man is from heaven.

Philippians 3:21

Christ will, through his power, bring everything under his authority. He will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorified (glorious) body (literally and figuratively: body of his glory). He is able to subject all things to himself.

Colossians 3:4

When Christ, who is our life, will be made known, then you will also be made known with him in glory.

1 John 5:11-12

The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son.

Revelation 16:3

Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea. It became like the blood of a dead man, and every living being died in the sea.

Revelation 21:6

And he said to me: It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who thirsts from the fountain of the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:1

He showed me a pure river of water of life. It was clear as crystal and flowed out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the bride say: Come And let him who hears say: Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him drink the water of life freely.

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