1 Corinthians 15:46 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁶ But it is not the spiritual which 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 sinful body might be destroyed, and 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, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.