New Revised Standard Version
Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Contemporary English Version
The first man was named Adam, and the Scriptures tell us that he was a living person. But Jesus, who may be called the last Adam, is a life-giving spirit.

New American Bible
So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

The first.

1 Corinthians 15:47-49 The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly. . . .

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Romans 5:12-14 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. . . .

Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And there came blood as it were of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

a quickening.

John 1:4 In him was life: and the life was the light of men.

John 4:10,14 Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. . . .

John 5:21,25-29 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. . . .

John 6:33,39,40,54,57,63,68 For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world. . . .

John 10:10,28 The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly. . . .

John 11:25,26 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: . . .

John 14:6,19 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. . . .

John 17:2,3 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. . . .

Acts 3:15 But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses.

Romans 5:17,21 For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ. . . .

Romans 8:2,10,11 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death. . . .

Philippians 3:21 Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

1 John 1:1-3 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled, of the word of life. . . .

1 John 5:11,12 And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son. . . .

Revelation 21:6 And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega: the Beginning and the End. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely.

Revelation 22:1,17 And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. . . .