1 Corinthians 15:13
But if a resurrection of the dead is impossible, Christ has not been raised.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
In Context
14And if Christ has not been raised, then vain is our preaching, and vain also your faith.
Cross References
John 11:25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live;
Romans 4:24but for our sakes also, to whom it shall be counted, if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Romans 8:23and not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
2 Corinthians 4:10always bearing about in our body the violent death of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.
1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also should we believe that God will, through Jesus, bring with him those who sleep.
Hebrews 2:14Since, then, the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also, in like manner, partook of the same, that, through his death, he might deprive of power him that has the power of death, that is, the devil;
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 →