1 Corinthians 15:49

Good News Translation

Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
We were made like that man of earth, so we will also be made like that man of heaven.

Revised Standard Version
Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And as we have borne the ymage of the erthy so shall we beare the ymage of the hevenly.

Hebrew Names Version
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.

International Standard Version
Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we willwe should">[fn] also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.Genesis 5:3; Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 4:11; Philippians 3:21; 1 John 3:2;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

New Century Version
Just as we were made like the man of earth, so we will also be made like the man of heaven.

Update Bible Version
And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Webster's Bible Translation
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

English Standard Version
Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

World English Bible
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Weymouth's New Testament
And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor as we han bore the ymage of the ertheli man, bere we also the ymage of the heuenli.

English Revised Version
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Berean Standard Bible
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.

Contemporary English Version
Just as we are like the one who was made out of earth, we will be like the one who came from heaven.

Amplified Bible
Just as we have borne the image of the earthly [the man of dust], we will also bear the image of the heavenly [the Man of heaven].

American Standard Version
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Bible in Basic English
And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

Complete Jewish Bible
and just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so also we will bear the image of the man from heaven.

Darby Translation
And as we have borne the image of the [one] made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [one].

Etheridge Translation
And as we have worn the likeness of him who was dust, so shall we wear the likeness of him who is from heaven.

Murdock Translation
And as we have worn the likeness of him from the dust, so shall we wear the likeness of him from heaven.

King James Version (1611)
And as we haue borne the image of the earthy, wee shall also beare the image of the heauenly.

New Living Translation
Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man.

New Life Bible
Now, our bodies are like Adam's body. But in heaven, our bodies will be like the body of Christ.

New Revised Standard
Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And as we haue borne the image of the earthly, so shall we beare the image of the heauenly.

George Lamsa Translation
And as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, even as we have borne the image of the man of earth, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as we haue borne the image of the earthy, so shall we beare the image of the heauenly.

Christian Standard Bible®
And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

King James Version
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Lexham English Bible
And just as we have borne the image of the one who is made of earth, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

Literal Translation
And as we bore the image of the earthy man , we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man .

Young's Literal Translation
and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And as we haue borne the ymage of the earthy, so shal we beare the ymage of the heauenly also.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for as we have born the image of the terrestrial, so we shall bear the image of the celestial.

New English Translation
And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

New King James Version
And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear [fn] the image of the heavenly Man.

Simplified Cowboy Version
We all may be like Adam now, but a few of us will be like Jesus one day.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

Legacy Standard Bible
And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

Contextual Overview

³⁵ Someone will ask, "How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?" ³⁶ You fool! When you plant a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what you plant is a bare seed, perhaps a grain of wheat or some other grain, not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up. ³⁸ God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body. ³⁹ And the flesh of living beings is not all the same kind of flesh; human beings have one kind of flesh, animals another, birds another, and fish another. ⁴⁰ And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies. ⁴¹ The sun has its own beauty, the moon another beauty, and the stars a different beauty; and even among stars there are different kinds of beauty. ⁴² This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal. ⁴³ When buried, it is ugly and weak; when raised, it will be beautiful and strong. ⁴⁴ When buried, it is a physical body; when raised, it will be a spiritual body. There is, of course, a physical body, so there has to be a spiritual body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as: Genesis 5:3

we shall: Matthew 13:43, Romans 8:29, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:10, 2 Corinthians 4:11, 1 John 3:2

Reciprocal: Luke 20:36 - they are Romans 5:17 - For if Hebrews 12:23 - the spirits

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as we have borne the image of the earthy,.... Which regards not so much the sinful image of the first man upon the soul, or the depravity of the powers and faculties of it, as his image of frailty and mortality on the body, having like him a body subject to infirmities and death:

we shall also bear the image of the heavenly; which likewise regards not so much the spiritual image of Christ stamped on the soul in regeneration, when Christ is formed in the heart, and the new man is created after his likeness, and which more and more appears, through every transforming view of him, and will be complete in glory, as the image and likeness of Christ upon the bodies of the saints in the resurrection, when they shall be fashioned like unto his: some copies, as the Alexandrian and others, read the words as an exhortation, let us bear the image, c. as if the words were an improvement of the apostle's reasoning on this subject, engaging saints to be more concerned for, and seeking after a greater likeness to Christ in righteousness and true holiness but the other reading and sense are best.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And as we have borne the image of the earthy - As like our first father, we are frail, decaying, dying; as we are so closely connected with him as to be like him. This does not refer, mainly, to one bearing his moral character, but to the fact that we are, like him, subject to sickness, frailty, sorrow, and death.

We shall also bear the image of the heavenly - The Lord Jesus Christ, who was from heaven, and who is in heaven. As we are so closely connected with Adam as to resemble him. so by the divine arrangement, and by faith in the Lord Jesus, we are so closely connected with him that we shall resemble him in heaven. And as he is now free from frailty, sickness. pain, sorrow, and death, and as he has a pure and spiritual body, adapted to a residence in heaven, so shall we be in that future world. The argument here is, that the connection which is formed between the believer and the Saviour is as close as that which subsisted between him and Adam; and as that connection with Adam involved the certainty that he would be subjected to pain, sin, sickness, and death, so the connection with Christ involves the certainty that he will like him be free from sin, sickness, pain, and death, and like him will have a body that is pure, incorruptible, and immortal.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 49. And as we have borne the image of the earthy — As being descendants from Adam we have all been born in his likeness, and subject to the same kind of corruption, disgrace, and death; we shall also be raised to a life immortal, such as he now enjoys in the kingdom of God. This interpretation proceeds on the ground that what is here spoken belongs to Adam in his twofold state: viz. of mortality and immortality; of disgrace and honour; of earth and heaven.

But by many commentators the words are understood to refer to Adam and Christ, in 1 Corinthians 15:46-49. By these, Christ is called the second Adam, the quickening Spirit, the second man, and the heavenly; whose image of righteousness and true holiness we are to bear.

But when I consider, 1st. How all these terms are used and applied in the Jewish writings, it appears to me that as this was not their import among them, so it was not the design of Paul; and it would be very difficult to find any place where Jesus Christ is called the second Adam in either Old or New Testament. The discourse of the apostle, Romans 5:14-19, will not prove it, though in those verses there is a comparison drawn between Adam and Christ; but that comparison refers to the extent of the sin and condemnation brought upon all men by the transgression of the first; and the redemption purchased for all men by the sacrifice of the last; and the superabundant grace procured by that sacrifice. But here, the comparison most evidently is between the state of man in this mortal life, and his state after the resurrection. Here, all men are corrupt and mortal, and here, all men die. There, all men shall be incorrupt and immortal, and, whether holy or unholy, shall be eternally immortal.

Of the image of Adam, in his heavenly or paradisaical state, the rabbins talk largely: they say that "God created Adam with a double image, earthly and heavenly; that he was the most perfect of all beings; that his splendour shone from one extremity of the earth to the other; that all feared before him; that he knew all wisdom, both earthly and heavenly; but when he sinned, his glory was diminished, and his wisdom departed from him." Yalcut Rubeni, fol. 10.

They add farther, that "in the time in which Adam received the בדיוקנה עילאה heavenly image, all creatures came to him, and acknowledged him king of the earth." Ibid., fol. 21.

2. From all this, and much more might be produced on the subject, (see Schoettgen,) it appears that the apostle follows, as far as it could comport with his design, the sentiments of his countrymen, and that he adopts their very phraseology; and that it is through the medium of these sentiments and this phraseology that he is to be understood and interpreted. Others may understand all these passages differently; and still consider them as a parallel between Adam and Christ, which is the general view of interpreters. The view which I have taken of them appears to me to be much more consistent with the nature of the discourse, and the scope and design of the apostle. The common opinion is orthodox: what I here propose is no heresy. There are many difficulties in the chapter, and not a few in the verses immediately under consideration.