1 Corinthians 15:17
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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, Christ has not been raised;
18Then, also, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Cross References
Acts 5:31Him has God exalted to his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, in order to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins:
Romans 4:25who was delivered up for our offenses, and raised again for our justification.
Romans 8:33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies.
1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ has not been raised, then vain is our preaching, and vain also your faith.
Hebrews 9:22And, indeed, according to the law, almost all things are cleansed by blood; and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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 →