1 Corinthians 15:46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁶ But it is not the spiritual that is first but the physical and then the spiritual.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁶ Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁶ But it is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then the spiritual.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁶ Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual.

Common English Bible

⁴⁶ But the physical body comes first, not the spiritual one—the spiritual body comes afterward.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁶ So what is, at first, not spiritual, but animal, next becomes spiritual.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁶ Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; afterwards that which is spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15:46 Cross References

Romans 6:6

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.