1 Corinthians 15:45

Easy To Read Version

Like the Scriptures {\cf2\super [116]} say, “The first man (Adam) became a living thing. {\cf2\super [117]} ” {\cf2\super [118]} But the last Adam (Christ) became a spirit that gives life.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. [9] The Lord breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing.

John 1:4

In him there was life. That life was light (understanding, goodness) for the people of the world.

John 10:10

A thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came to give life—life that is full and good.

John 10:28

I give my sheep eternal life. They will never die. And no person can take them out of my hand.

John 14:19

In a very short time the people in the world will not see me any more. But you will see me. You will live because I live.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way. I am the truth and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “You don’t know about the thing God gives. And you don’t know who I am that asked you for a drink. If you knew these things, you would have asked me and I would have given you living water.”

John 4:14

But the person that drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. That water I give will become like a spring of water flowing inside that person. That water will bring that person life forever.”

John 5:21

The Father raises dead people and gives them life. In the same way, the Son gives life to the people he wants to.

John 6:33

What is the bread of God? God’s bread is the One that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:54

The person that eats my body and drinks my blood has eternal life. I will raise up that person on the last day.

John 6:57

The Father sent me. The Father lives, and I live because of the Father. So the person that eats me will live because of me.

John 6:63

It is not the body that gives a person life. It is the spirit that gives life. The things I told you are spirit. And so these things give life.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered Jesus, “Lord, where would we go? You have the things that give life forever.

Acts 3:15

And so you killed the One that gives life! But God raised him from death. We are witnesses of this—we saw this with our own eyes.

Romans 5:17

One man sinned, and so death ruled all people because of that one man. But now some people accept God’s full grace (kindness) and his great gift of being made right. Surely those people will have true life and rule through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:21

Sin once used death to rule us. But God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. This brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 8:2

Why? Because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit {\cf2\super [58]} that brings life made you {\cf2\super [59]} free. It made you {\cf2\super [60]} free from the law that brings sin and death.

1 Corinthians 15:46

The spiritual \{man\} did not come first. It was the physical \{man\} that came first; then came the spiritual.

Philippians 3:21

He will change our humble bodies and make them like his own glorious body. Christ can do this by his power. With that power Christ is able to rule all things.

Colossians 3:4

Christ is your life. When he comes again, you will share in his glory.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood of Christ can do much, much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit {\cf2\super [106]} as a perfect sacrifice {\cf2\super [107]} to God. His blood will make us fully clean from the evil things we have done. His blood will make us pure even in our hearts. We are made pure so that we can worship (serve) the living God.

Revelation 16:3

The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea. Then the sea became blood like the blood of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

Revelation 21:6

The One on the throne said to me: “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega, {\cf2\super [158]} the Beginning and the End. I will give free water from the spring of the water of life to any person that is thirsty.

Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life. The river was bright like crystal. The river flows from the throne of God and the Lamb.

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit {\cf2\super [178]} and the bride say, “Come!” Every person that hears this should also say, “Come!” If a person is thirsty, let him come; that person can have the water of life as a free gift if he wants it.