1 Corinthians 15:45

This is also what Scripture says: "Adam, the first man, became a living being." The last Adam became a spirit who gives life.
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Treated in 8 passages across the library.

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God cites 1 Cor. xv. 45

    …a covenant of the people,” Isa. xlii. 6; and a “leader,” lv. 4. He was the second Adam, 1 Cor. xv. 45, 47, to all ends and purposes of righteousness, to his spiritual seed, as the first Adam…

  2. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in holiness cites 1 Cor. xv. 45

    …it in our behalf, Rom. v. 14–17. “The last Adam is made” unto us “a quickening Spirit,” 1 Cor. xv. 45. He is also a treasury of this grace in a moral and law sense: not only as “it pleased…

  3. Rise Up, Men of God · Ochorus Originals

    Created to Lead cites 1 Corinthians 15:45

    …Adam — the Lord Jesus Christ. Where the first Adam failed, the last Adam succeeded (1 Corinthians 15:45). Where the first Adam was silent, Christ spoke truth. Where the first Adam hid, Christ…

  4. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 15 — State in Which Man Was Created cites 1 Cor. 15:45

    …Spirit which believers receive from Christ, with the living soul which Adam was created (1 Cor. 15:45), commends the richer measure of grace bestowed in regeneration, he does not, however…

  5. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 1 — The Benefits of Christ Made Available to Us by the Secret Operation of the Spirit cites 1 Cor. 15:45

    …is called the “last Adam,” and said to have been sent from heaven “a quickening Spirit,” (1 Cor. 15:45), where Paul contrasts the special life which Christ breathes into his people, that they…

  6. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites 1 Corinthians 15:45

    …ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendour. December 26 “The last Adam.” (1 Corinthians 15:45) Jesus is the federal head of his elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a…

  7. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section II. The Acts of the Will of the Human Soul of Jesus Christ, Necessarily Holy, Yet Truly Virtuous, Praise-worthy, Rewardable, &c cites 1 Cor. xv. 45

    …in the flesh, was manifestly in a state of trial. The last Adam, as Christ is called, (1 Cor. xv. 45. Rom. v. 14.) taking on him the human nature, and so the form of a servant, and being…

  8. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Conformed to the Image of Christ cites 1 Corinthians 15:45-49

    …borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven” (1 Corinthians 15:45-49). It is deeply interesting to see that this process, which was begun in Genesis, is…

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