1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
KJV
οὕτως καὶ γέγραπται, ἐγένετο ὁ πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος Ἀδὰμ εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν· ὁ ἔσχατος Ἀδὰμ εἰς πνεῦμα ζῳοποιοῦν.
Greek NT
Factus est primus homo Adam in animam viventem, novissimus Adam in spiritum vivificantem.
Vulgate
So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
ASV
The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
ζωοποιέω
zoopoieo
verb · 11×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
πρῶτος
protos
adjective · 101×
ψυχή
psuche
noun · 102×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
Ἀδάμ
adam
noun · 9×
ἔσχατος
eschatos
adjective · 53×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Gen 2:7 · exact_quote"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."Genesis: first man Adam became a living soul — Paul on two Adams
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8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§646Christ's Resurrection was not a return to earthly life, as was the case with the raisings from the dead that he had performed before Easter: Jairus' daughter, the young man of Naim, Lazarus. These actions were miraculous events, but the persons miraculously raised returned by Jesus' power to ordinary earthly life. At some particular moment they would die again. Christ's Resurre…
Of the difference between life and death; of the breath of life and the vivifying Spirit: also how it is that the substance of flesh revives which once was dead. 1. For as the flesh is capable of corruption, so is it also of incorruption; and as it is of death, so is it also of life. These two do mutually give way to each other; and both cannot remain in the same place, but one…
1. Little children who go daily to their teachers receive their lessons, and repeat them, and never cease from this kind of acquisition, but sometimes employ nights as well as days, and this they are compelled to do for perishable and transient things. Now we do not ask of you who have come to age such toil as you require of your children; for not every day, but two days only i…
1. How Christians are the Spiritual Israel. That people which was called of old the people of God was divided into twelve tribes, and over and above the other tribes it had the levitical order, which itself again carried on the service of God in various priestly and levitical suborders. In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in t…
Was the first man created in grace? In the state of innocence, did he have passions of the soul? Did he have all virtues? Would what he did have been as meritorious as now? Article 1. Whether the first man was created in grace? Objection 1. It would seem that the first man was not created in grace. For the Apostle, distinguishing between Adam and Christ, says (1 Corinthians 15:…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:22 — For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
- 1Cor 15:47 — The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
- 1Cor 15:47 — The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
- 1John 1:1 — 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;
- 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 1Tim 2:5 — For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
- 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- 2Cor 3:17 — Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- Acts 3:15 — And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
- Acts 3:15 — And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
- Col 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
- Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Col 3:4 — When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
- Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Ezek 37:14 — And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
- Gal 5:25 — If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
- Gen 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.
- Gen 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.
- Job 33:4 — The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
- John 1:4 — In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
- 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 drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 5:21 — For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
- John 5:26 — For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
- John 6:33 — For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
- John 6:39 — And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
- John 6:54 — Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:57 — As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
- John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- 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 cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
- John 10:28 — And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- John 11:25 — Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
- John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- John 14:19 — Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- John 14:19 — Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- John 17:2 — As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.