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44 When it is put in the ground it is only a body for this world. When it rises it is a body for the spirit. If there is a body for this world, then there is also a body for the spirit.

45 The holy writings say, `The first man, Adam, was of this world! The last Adam [Christ] is a Spirit who gives life.'

46 The body for the spirit does not come first. The body for this world comes first. Then comes the body for the spirit.

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44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.(A)

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[a];(B) the last Adam,(C) a life-giving spirit.(D) 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:45 Gen. 2:7