However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man ¹  who keeps the law judge you who, despite ²  the written code ³  and circumcision, transgress the law?

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

For “physical exercise ¹  has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes – both calamity and blessing? ¹ 

– children not born ¹  by human parents ²  or by human desire ³  or a husband’s ⁴  decision, ⁵  but by God.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, ¹  and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward ¹  to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

If you strike ¹  him with the rod, you will deliver him ²  from death. ³ 

She begins ¹  her work vigorously, and she strengthens ²  her arms.

But you, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  are children of the promise like Isaac.

“Tell Aaron, ‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations ¹  who has a physical flaw ²  is to approach to present the food of his God.

For even though I am absent physically, ¹  I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present. ² 

but now he has reconciled you ¹  by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

young men in whom there was no physical defect and who were handsome, ¹  well versed in all kinds of wisdom, well educated ²  and having keen insight, ³  and who were capable ⁴  of entering the king’s royal service ⁵  – and to teach them the literature and language ⁶  of the Babylonians. ⁷ 

“‘But if he brings a sheep as his offering, for a sin offering, he must bring a flawless female.

if it is to be acceptable for your benefit ¹  it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.