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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.

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  1. 15:45 “The first . . . person.” Quotation from Genesis 2:7.

45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[a];(A) the last Adam,(B) a life-giving spirit.(C) 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.(D) 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth;(E) the second man is of heaven.(F)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 15:45 Gen. 2:7