Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

The First People

⁴ This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the sky, ⁵ there were no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields. The Lord God had not yet made it rain on the land. And there was no man to care for the ground. ⁶ But a mist often rose from the earth and watered all the ground.

⁷ Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed man from it. The Lord breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose. And the man became a living person.

⁴² It is the same with the dead who are raised to life. The body that is “planted” will ruin and decay. But that body is raised to a life that cannot be destroyed. ⁴³ When the body is “planted,” it is without honor. But it is raised in glory. When the body is “planted,” it is weak. But when it is raised, it has power. ⁴⁴ The body that is “planted” is a physical body. When it is raised, it is a spiritual body.

There is a physical body. And there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Scriptures: “The first man became a living person.”^[a] But the last Adam became a spirit that gives life. ⁴⁶ The spiritual man did not come first. It was the physical man who came first; then came the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man came from the dust of the earth. The second man came from heaven. ⁴⁸ People belong to the earth. They are like the first man of earth. But those people who belong to heaven are like the man of heaven. ⁴⁹ We were made like the man of earth. So we will^[b] also be made like the man of heaven.