For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

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