12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to everyone, because all have sinned.

45 This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.46 The spiritual does not come first, but the physical and then the spiritual.47 The first man came from the dust of the earth; the second man came from heaven.48 Those who are made of the dust are like the man from the dust, those who are heavenly are like the man who is from heaven.49 Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

6 Instead, someone has declared somewhere, "What is man that you should remember him,or the son of man that you should care for him?

22 Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old man, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,23 to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,24 and to clothe yourselves with the new man, which was created according to the likeness of God in righteousness and true holiness.

15 He rendered the law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, so that he might create in himself one new humanity from the two, thus making peace,

11 But you, man of God, must flee from all these things. Instead, you must pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

7 Such a person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all he undertakes.

1 Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him as if he were your father. Treat younger men like brothers,