1 Corinthians 15:18
and also, doubtless, they who have fallen asleep in the Messiah, have perished.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
In Context
17And if the Messiah rose not, your faith is inane; and ye are yet in your sins:
19And if, in this life only, we have hope in the Messiah, we are the most miserable of all men.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:6and after that, he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once; many of whom survive at the present time, and some of them sleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:16Because our Lord will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise;
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 →