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 as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
• Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Rom 8:10–11If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• Rom 5:12–14Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
• John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• John 6:39–40This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
• John 6:33For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
• 1 Cor 15:47–49The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
• 1 Jn 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
• John 6:54He who 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, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
• Rev 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
• John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
• Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
• John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 17:2–3even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• Rev 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
• Col 3:4When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
• 1 Jn 5:11–12The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• Phil 3:21who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
• John 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• John 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
• Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
• Rev 16:3The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.
• John 5:25–29Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

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