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However that which is spiritual isn`t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
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God's Established Order
Commentators unanimously explain that this verse reveals a fundamental principle of God's plan: the natural always comes before the spiritual. Just as a seed must be planted before a plant grows, our natural, earthly existence precedes our future, spiritual one. Scholars refer to this as a 'due order' or a universal 'law of growth' established by God.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
However. There is a due order observed, 1 Corinthians 15:23. The decaying, the dying, the weak, the corruptible, in the proper…
Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural (αλλ' ου πρωτον το πνευματικον, αλλα το ψυχικον). Literall…
19th Century
Anglican
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual.—Here a further thought is introduced. There is not only a variety of bodies—and that variet…
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Baptist
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. However, that was not first which …
Paul now answers the question some believers were asking: since a resurrection “body” (GK 5393) would be like the sinful mortal body we now have, h…
16th Century
Protestant
But this is not first, which is spiritual. “It is necessary,” he says, “that before we are restored in Christ, we derive our origin from A…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual As the apostle before proves the distinction of a natural and spiritu…
13th Century
Catholic
Here the Apostle shows by reason the difference in quality between the dead body and the resurrection body, which was indicated by the examples abo…
