1 Corinthians 15:46
Good News Translation
It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.

New Revised Standard Version
But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.

Contemporary English Version
We see that the one with a spiritual body did not come first. He came after the one who had a physical body.

New American Bible
But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual.

that which is natural.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

Ephesians 4:22-24 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. . . .

Colossians 3:9,10 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds, . . .

Context
The Resurrection Body
45The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit. 46Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: afterwards that which is spiritual. 47The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

1 Corinthians 15:45
The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

1 Corinthians 15:45
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