As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.
Parallel translations
- KJV And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
- BSB And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
- NKJV And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
- NASB Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
- NLT Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man.
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- Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
- 2 Cor 4:10–11always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
- 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
- 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.
- Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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