1 Corinthians 15:17
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine: ye are yet in your sinnes.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 be not raised, then is Christ not raised.
18And so they which are a sleepe in Christ, are perished.
Cross References
Ezekiel 33:10Therefore, O thou sonne of man, speake vnto the house of Israel, Thus yee speake and say, If our transgressions and our sinnes bee vpon vs, and we are consumed because of them, howe should we then liue?
Acts 5:31Him hath God lift vp with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Sauiour, to giue repentance to Israel, and forgiuenes of sinnes.
Romans 4:25Who was deliuered to death for our sinnes, and is risen againe for our iustification.
Romans 8:33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen? it is God that iustifieth,
1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vaine, and your faith is also vaine.
Hebrews 9:22And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without sheading of blood 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 →