1 Corinthians 15:49

And as we have borne the image The imageor likeness. In this present life we are like Adam: in the next we shall be like Christ, cf. Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Philippians 3:21; Colossians 3:10; 1 John 3:2.

we shall also bear So Tyndale. Many MSS. read - letus also bear" in this passage. But St Paul is not exhortinghere, but teaching("non esse exhortationem, sed puram doctrinam." Calvin). And, moreover, the exhortation would seem a little out of place, since "regeneration cannot be obtained by striving or even by faith itself, it is an act of positive grace." Olshausen. Tertullian, however, remarks expressly that St Paul says -let us bear," speaking in exhortation, not in doctrine. So Chrysostom, whom with the Vulgate Wiclif follows, translating "bere we also;" while Theodoret, on the contrary, says that St Paul here was not speaking hortatively, but prophetically.