1 Corinthians 15:45 BSB

1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

KJV

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

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Commentary

1 voice

Irenaeus

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 5 (202)

For there had been a necessity that, in the first place, a human being should be fashioned, and that what was fashioned should receive the soul; afterwards that it should thus receive the communion of the Spirit. Wherefore also "the first Adam was made" by the Lord "a living soul, the second Adam a quickening spirit." As, then, he who was made a living soul forfeited life when he turned aside to what was evil, so, on the other hand, the same individual, when he reverts to what is good, and receives the quickening Spirit, shall find life.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The first Adam was made a living soul - God gave him such life as other animals enjoy: but the last Adam, Christ, is a quickening spirit - As he hath life in himself, so he quickeneth whom he will; giving a more refined life to their very bodies at the resurrection.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And so it is written, - Gen 2:7. It is only the first part of the verse which is quoted. The first man Adam was made a living soul - This is quoted exactly from the translation by the Septuagint, except that the apostle has added the words “first” and “Adam.” This is done to designate whom he meant. The meaning of the phrase “was made a living soul” (ἐγένετο εις ψυκὴν ζωσαν egeneto eis psuchēn zōsan - in Hebrew, נפשׁ חיה nephesh chayaah is, became a living, animated being; a being endowed with life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὕτως	houtōs	So	G3779 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
γέγραπται·	gegraptai	it has been written:	G1125 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	Became	G1096 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
πρῶτος	prōtos	first	G4413 →
ἄνθρωπος	anthrōpos	man	G444 →
Ἀδὰμ	Adam	Adam	G76 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
ψυχὴν	psuchēn	a soul	G5590 →
ζῶσαν·	zōsan	living;	G2198 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἔσχατος	eschatos	last	G2078 →
Ἀδὰμ	Adam	Adam	G76 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
πνεῦμα	pneuma	a spirit	G4151 →
ζῳοποιοῦν.	zōopoioun	life-giving.	G2227 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 8:2
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
leads to
- Romans 6:14
  For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17
  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- Romans 6:18
  You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6
  And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- Romans 8:10–11
  But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Through
Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
  before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Job 33:4
  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- Isaiah 64:8
  But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.