1 Corinthians 15:17
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
In Context
16For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.
18Then also those who slept in Christ have perished.
Cross References
Ezekiel 33:10And thou, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus ye speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?
Acts 5:31God exalted this man with his right hand, a Pathfinder and a Savior to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.
Romans 4:25who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised up for our justification.
Romans 8:33Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous.
1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.
Hebrews 9:22And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood, and remission does not occur without bloodshed.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:13-20
The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16 For if the dead rise not,… Read the whole commentary →