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Thus it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
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The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is a from heaven.
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As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
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Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will b also bear the image of the man of heaven.
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