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.
Parallel translations
- KJV As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
- BSB As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.
- NKJV As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.
- NASB As is the earthy one, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly One, so also are those who are heavenly.
- NLT Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man.
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- Gen 5:3Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Phil 3:20–21For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
- John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
- Rom 5:12–21Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
- 1 Cor 15:21–22For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.
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