1 Corinthians 15:45

The first Adam became a living soul; the last Adam, Christ, a life-giving spirit. It matters because Christ gives resurrection life that Adam never could.

Cross-references · 33

• John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
• Gen 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
• Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
• Rom 8:10–11But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• Rom 5:12–14Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
• John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
• John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• John 6:39–40And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
• John 6:57Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
• John 6:33For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
• 1 Cor 15:47–49The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
• 1 Jn 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
• John 6:54Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• Rom 5:17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
• Rev 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
• John 14:19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
• Rom 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
• John 6:68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 17:2–3For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• Rev 21:6And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
• Col 3:4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
• 1 Jn 5:11–12And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
• John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
• Phil 3:21who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
• John 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
• Acts 3:15You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.
• Rev 16:3And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.
• John 5:25–29Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

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