1 Corinthians 15:18

Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. Then they also which are fallen asleepe in Christ, are perished. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. And those in Christ who have already died are lost. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost. Also, if this is the case, those who died in union with the Messiah are lost. Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. And those in Christ who have already died are lost. And so they which are a sleepe in Christ, are perished. And also, then, those who have died in Christ have perished. It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost. And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. And then those that fell asleep in Christ were lost. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction. Then they also who are fallen asleep in Messiah have perished. Yes, even those who have diedhave fallen asleep">[fn] in Christ are lost. And already have they too who have slept in Meshiha perished. and also, doubtless, they who have fallen asleep in the Messiah, have perished. Therfore, they which are fallen in a slepe in Christe, are perisshed. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Then also they who sleep in Christ are perished. It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. And thanne thei that han diede in Crist, han perischid. Then they also that have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost! Then the Christians who have already died are lost in sin. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. Hence also, they who are fallen asleep in Christ, are lost: Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. And therto they which are fallen a slepe in Christ are perished. then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish; then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ perished; they also that are falle a slepe in Christ, are perished. then they too who died christians, are entirely lost. All those cowboys who rode for Christ would be lost if he wasn't alive today.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

King James Version (1611)
Then they also which are fallen asleepe in Christ, are perished.

King James Version
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

English Standard Version
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

New American Standard Bible
Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

New Century Version
And those in Christ who have already died are lost.

Amplified Bible
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Berean Standard Bible
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Contemporary English Version
And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost.

Complete Jewish Bible
Also, if this is the case, those who died in union with the Messiah are lost.

Darby Translation
Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Easy-to-Read Version
And those in Christ who have already died are lost.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And so they which are a sleepe in Christ, are perished.

George Lamsa Translation
And also, then, those who have died in Christ have perished.

Good News Translation
It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.

Lexham English Bible
And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Literal Translation
And then those that fell asleep in Christ were lost.

American Standard Version
Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Bible in Basic English
And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

Hebrew Names Version
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Messiah have perished.

International Standard Version
Yes, even those who have diedhave fallen asleep">[fn] in Christ are lost.

Etheridge Translation
And already have they too who have slept in Meshiha perished.

Murdock Translation
and also, doubtless, they who have fallen asleep in the Messiah, have perished.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore, they which are fallen in a slepe in Christe, are perisshed.

English Revised Version
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

World English Bible
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then also they who sleep in Christ are perished.

Weymouth's New Testament
It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thanne thei that han diede in Crist, han perischid.

Update Bible Version
Then they also that have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

New English Translation
Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

New King James Version
Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

New Living Translation
In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost!

New Life Bible
Then the Christians who have already died are lost in sin.

New Revised Standard
Then those also who have died in Christ have perished.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hence also, they who are fallen asleep in Christ, are lost:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

Revised Standard Version
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And therto they which are fallen a slepe in Christ are perished.

Young's Literal Translation
then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
they also that are falle a slepe in Christ, are perished.

Mace New Testament (1729)
then they too who died christians, are entirely lost.

Simplified Cowboy Version
All those cowboys who rode for Christ would be lost if he wasn't alive today.

Contextual Overview

¹²Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”? 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? 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? ¹² Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹² Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹² Now since we preached that Christ was raised from the dead, why do some of you say that people will not be raised from the dead? ¹²Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how is it that some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹² Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹²Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹²But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fallen: 1 Corinthians 15:6, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, Revelation 14:13

Reciprocal: Proverbs 25:22 - the Lord John 8:21 - and shall die John 11:11 - sleepeth John 11:25 - he that Acts 7:60 - he fell Acts 13:36 - fell 1 Corinthians 15:51 - We shall not

Cross-References

Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Ashshur. The fourth river is the Perat.

Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14
The third river, named Tigris, flows out of Assyria toward the east. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14
The third river is named Hiddekel (Tigris); it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14
The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur: and the fourth riuer is Perath)

Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that went east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:14
The Tigris River that flows east of Assyria is the third, and the fourth is the Euphrates River.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ,.... That is, who are dead, and have died in Christ: death is often represented by a sleep, and that more than once in this chapter; and doubtless with a view to the resurrection, which will be an awaking out of it, since it will not be perpetual: some understand this of such only who were fallen asleep, or died martyrs for the sake of Christ and his Gospel; as Stephen, James the brother of John, and others; but rather it designs all such as die in Christ, in union with him, whether in the lively exercise of faith, or not; of whom it must be said, if Christ is not risen, that they

are perished: soul and body; for if there is no reason to believe the resurrection of the dead, there is no reason to believe the immortality of the soul, or a future state, but rather that the soul perishes with the body, and that there is no existence after death: though should it be insisted on that the soul survives, and shall live without the body to all eternity, it must be in a state of misery, if Christ is not risen, because it must be in its sins; and neither sanctified nor justified, and consequently cannot be glorified, so that the whole may be said to be perished; the body perishes in the grave, the soul in hell; but God forbid that this should be said of those, who have either died for Christ, or in him: can it be that any that are in Christ, that are united to him, one body and spirit with him, should ever perish? or those that are asleep in him be lost? no, those that sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him at the last day, who shall be for ever with him, and for ever happy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then they also ... - This verse contains a statement of another consequence which must follow from the denial of the resurrection - that all Christians who had died had failed of salvation, and were destroyed.

Which are fallen asleep in Christ - Which have died as Christians; 1 Corinthians 15:6 note; 1 Thessalonians 4:15 note.

Are perished - Are destroyed; are not saved. They hoped to have been saved by the merits of the Lord Jesus; they trusted to a risen Saviour, and fixed all their hopes of heaven there; but if he did not rise, of course the whole system was delusion, and they have failed of heaven, and been destroyed. Their bodies lie in the grave, and return to their native dust without the prospect of a resurrection, and their souls are destroyed. The “argument” here is mainly an appeal to their feelings: “Can you believe it possible that the good people who have believed in the Lord Jesus are destroyed? Can you believe that your best friends, your kindred, and your fellow Christians who have died, have gone down to perdition? Can you believe that they will sink to woe with the impenitent, and the polluted, and abandoned? If you cannot, then it must follow that they are saved. And then it will follow that you “cannot” embrace a doctrine which involves this consequence.”

And this argument is a sound one still. There are multitudes who are made good men by the gospel. They are holy, humble, self-denying, and prayerful friends of God. “They have become such by the belief of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.” Can it be believed that they will be destroyed? That they will perish with the profane, and licentious, and unprincipled? That they will go down to dwell with the polluted and the wicked? “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Genesis 18:25. If it “cannot” be so believed, then they will be saved; and “if” saved it follows that the system is true which saves them, and, of course, that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. We may remark here, that a denial of the truth of Christianity involves the belief that its friends will perish with others; that all their hopes are vain; and that their expectations are delusive. He, therefore, who becomes an infidel “believes” that his pious friends - his sainted father, his holy mother, his lovely Christian sister or child, is deluded and deceived; that they will sink down to the grave to rise no more; that their hopes of heaven will all vanish, and that they will be destroyed with the profane, the impure, and the sensual.

And if infidelity demands “this” faith of its votaries, it is a system which strikes at the very happiness of social life, and at all our convictions of what is true and right. It is a system that is withering and blighting to the best hopes of people. “Can” it be believed that God will destroy those who are living to his honor; who are pure in heart, and lovely in life, “and who have been made such by the Christian religion?” If it cannot, then every man knows that Christianity is not false, and that infidelity is not true.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. They also which are fallen asleep — All those who, either by martyrdom or natural death, have departed in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, are perished; their hope was without foundation, and their faith had not reason and truth for its object. Their bodies are dissolved in the earth, finally decomposed and destroyed, notwithstanding the promise of Christ to such, that he would raise them up at the last day. See John 5:25, John 5:28, John 5:29; John 11:25, John 11:26, &c.