It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law I became as one under the lawthough not being myself under the lawso that I might win those under the law.

To those who are without law, I became as one without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without the law.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

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