Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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.

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 is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one. 45 Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit. 46 But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:


Cross References

Romans 8:2

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

Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

John 5:21

For even as the Father raises the dead and quickens them, thus the Son also quickens whom he will:

John 6:33

For the bread of God is he who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

John 6:57

As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, he also who eats me shall live also on account of me.

John 1:4

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

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says 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 which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

John 6:39-40

And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.

John 6:54

He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day:

John 6:68

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

John 10:10

The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.

John 14:6

Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.

Acts 3:15

but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

Romans 8:10-11

but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

1 John 1:1-3

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes; that which we contemplated, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life;

John 5:25-29

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

John 6:63

It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

John 10:28

and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;

John 14:19

Yet a little and the world sees me no longer; but ye see me; because I live ye also shall live.

John 17:2-3

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

Romans 5:12-14

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Romans 5:17

For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

Romans 5:21

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:47-49

the first man out of the earth, made of dust; the second man, out of heaven.

Philippians 3:21

who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of the power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.

Colossians 3:4

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

1 John 5:11-12

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

Revelation 16:3

And the second poured out his bowl on 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 to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:1

And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going 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 athirst come; he that will, let him take the water of life freely.

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