1 Corinthians 15:47

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • John 3:31 : 31 He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
  • Jer 23:6 : 6 In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
  • Luke 1:16-17 : 16 And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.
  • Luke 2:11 : 11 For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.
  • John 3:12-13 : 12 If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven? 13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.
  • John 6:33 : 33 The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
  • Acts 10:36 : 36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
  • Eph 4:9-9 : 9 (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.) 11 And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

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    48 Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.

    49 And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

    50 Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

  • 1 Cor 15:44-46
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    44 It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

    45 And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

    46 But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.

  • John 3:31
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    31 He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

  • 1 Cor 15:39-42
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    39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes.

    40 And there are bodies of heaven and bodies of earth, but the glory of the one is different from that of the other.

    41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

    42 So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

  • John 3:12-13
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    12 If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

    13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

  • Gen 2:7
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    7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

  • 1 Cor 15:21-23
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    21 For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

    22 For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

    23 But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.

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    7 For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

    8 For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.

  • 1 Cor 2:13-15
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    13 And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

    14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

    15 But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.

  • John 3:6
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    6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

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    13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

  • Jas 3:15
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    15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

  • 1 Cor 11:11-12
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    11 But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

    12 For as the woman is from the man, so the man is through the woman; but all things are from God.

  • Col 1:15
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    15 Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;

  • 1 Pet 1:23-24
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    23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

    24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

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    23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • Ps 115:16
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    16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

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    50 The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

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    35 But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

  • Gen 1:27
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    27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

  • Eph 4:9
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    9 (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

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    3 But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6 It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

  • 2 Cor 5:2
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    2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

  • 1 Cor 2:11
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    11 For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.

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    1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

  • Gen 3:19
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    19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

  • 1 Thess 4:16
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    16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

  • 1 Cor 8:5
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    5 For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,

  • Eph 3:15
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    15 From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

  • Gen 2:4
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    4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

  • Eccl 3:21
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    21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?