45 So also it is written: “The first (A)man, Adam, became a living [a]person.” The (B)last Adam was a (C)life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47 The first man is (D)from the earth, [b](E)earthy; the second man is from heaven. 48 As is the earthy one, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly one, (F)so also are those who are heavenly. 49 Just as we have (G)borne the image of the earthy, [c]we (H)will also bear the image of the heavenly.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:45 Or soul
  2. 1 Corinthians 15:47 Or made of dust, and so throughout the ch
  3. 1 Corinthians 15:49 Two early mss let’s also

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