"But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:" — 1 Corinthians 15:13

1 Corinthians 15:13 · KJV

“But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:”

— 1 Corinthians 15:13

Verse 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?

Verse 14

And if Christ be not risen, then {is} our preaching vain, and your faith {is} also vain.

1 Corinthians 15 — Context

Therefore whether {it were} I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

And if Christ be not risen, then {is} our preaching vain, and your faith {is} also vain.

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.

Cross References

John 11:25-26

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. {by: or, because of}

Revelation 1:18

I {am} he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

2 Corinthians 4:10-14

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Romans 4:24-25

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed {be} the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, {abundant: Gr. much}

Colossians 3:1-4

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.