"And if Christ be not raised, your faith {is} vain; ye are yet in your sins." — 1 Corinthians 15:17

1 Corinthians 15:17 · KJV

“And if Christ be not raised, your faith {is} vain; ye are yet in your sins.”

— 1 Corinthians 15:17

For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

1 Corinthians 15 — Context

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.

For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

And if Christ be not raised, your faith {is} vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Cross References

Romans 4:25

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

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}

1 Corinthians 15:14

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

1 Peter 1:21

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Romans 8:33-34

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? {It is} God that justifieth.

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Acts 5:31

Him hath God exalted with his right hand {to be} a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

Hebrews 10:4-12

For {it is} not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.