1 Corinthians 15:45-49

J.B. Phillips New Testament

⁴⁵ It is written, moreover, that: ‘The first man Adam became a living being’.

^46-49 So the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit. But we should notice that the order is “natural” first and then “spiritual”. The first man came out of the earth, a material creature. The second man came from Heaven and was the Lord himself. For the life of this world men are made like the material man; but for the life that is to come they are made like the one from Heaven. So that just as we have been made like the material pattern, so we shall be made like the Heavenly pattern.