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John 6:63
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John 6:63
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63 It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh[a] is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
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John 6:63
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John 6:63
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63 The Spirit gives life;(A) the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life.
Footnotes
- John 6:63 Or are Spirit; or are spirit
1 Corinthians 15:44-50
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1 Corinthians 15:44-50
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44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
45 So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam,[a] became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.(A) 46 But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven. 48 As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly, and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image[b] of the heavenly one.(B)
The Resurrection Event. 50 [c]This I declare, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption[d] inherit incorruption.(C)
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- 15:45 The analogy of the first man, Adam, is introduced by a citation from Gn 2:7. Paul alters the text slightly, adding the adjective first, and translating the Hebrew ’ādām twice, so as to give it its value both as a common noun (man) and as a proper name (Adam). 1 Cor 15:45b then specifies similarities and differences between the two Adams. The last Adam, Christ (cf. 1 Cor 15:21–22) has become a…spirit (pneuma), a life-principle transcendent with respect to the natural soul (psychē) of the first Adam (on the terminology here, cf. note on 1 Cor 3:1). Further, he is not just alive, but life-giving, a source of life for others.
- 15:49 We shall also bear the image: although it has less manuscript support, this reading better fits the context’s emphasis on futurity and the transforming action of God; on future transformation as conformity to the image of the Son, cf. Rom 8:29; Phil 3:21. The majority reading, “let us bear the image,” suggests that the image of the heavenly man is already present and exhorts us to conform to it.
- 15:50–57 These verses, an answer to the first question of 1 Cor 15:35, explain theologically how the change of properties from one image to another will take place: God has the power to transform, and he will exercise it.
- 15:50–53 Flesh and blood…corruption: living persons and the corpses of the dead, respectively. In both cases, the gulf between creatures and God is too wide to be bridged unless God himself transforms us.
1 Corinthians 15:44-50
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1 Corinthians 15:44-50
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44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.(A)
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[a];(B) the last Adam,(C) a life-giving spirit.(D) 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.(E) 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth;(F) the second man is of heaven.(G) 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.(H) 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man,(I) so shall we[b] bear the image of the heavenly man.(J)
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood(K) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,(L) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.(M)
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- 1 Corinthians 15:45 Gen. 2:7
- 1 Corinthians 15:49 Some early manuscripts so let us
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