1 Corinthians 15:47

World English Bible (2000)

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

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  • John 3:31 : 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  • Jer 23:6 : 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
  • Luke 1:16-17 : 16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God. 17 He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord."
  • Luke 2:11 : 11 For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
  • John 3:12-13 : 12 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
  • John 6:33 : 33 For the bread of God is that 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, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all--
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • Eph 4:9-9 : 9 Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. 11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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    48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

    49 As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.

    50 Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

  • 1 Cor 15:44-46
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    44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

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

    46 However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

  • John 3:31
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    31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above 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 flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

    40 There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.

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

    42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

  • John 3:12-13
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    12 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

    13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

  • Gen 2:7
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    7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • 1 Cor 15:21-23
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    21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

    22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

    23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

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    7 For a man indeed ought not 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 man is not from woman, but woman from man;

  • 1 Cor 2:13-15
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    13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

    14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

  • John 3:6
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    6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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    13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

  • Jas 3:15
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    15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

  • 1 Cor 11:11-12
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    11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

    12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

  • Col 1:15
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    15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

  • 1 Pet 1:23-24
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    23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

    24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

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    23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

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    16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

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    50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

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    35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

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    27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • Eph 4:9
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    9 Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3 But I would have you know 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 The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

  • 2 Cor 5:2
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    2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

  • 1 Cor 2:11
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    11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

  • Gen 5:1
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    1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.

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    19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

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    16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

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    5 For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "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 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

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    21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"