1 Corinthians 15:17
and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ has not risen;
18It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Cross References
Acts 5:31God has exalted Him to His right hand as Chief Leader and as Saviour, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.
Romans 4:25who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.
Romans 8:33Who shall impeach those whom God has chosen? God declares them free from guilt.
1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.
Hebrews 9:22Indeed we may almost say that in obedience to the Law everything is sprinkled with blood, and that apart from the outpouring of blood there is no remission of sins.
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 →