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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Corinthians 15:17

and if the Messiah has not been raised, your trust is useless, and you are still in your sins.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Immortality;   Jesus Continued;   Resurrection;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Resurrection;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead, the;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Justification before God;   Resurrection, the;   Resurrection of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Death;   Resurrection of Christ;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Resurrection;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ascension of Jesus Christ;   Assurance;   Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Salvation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Annihilation;   Omnipotence of God;   Resurrection;   Resurrection of Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Resurrection;   Resurrection of Jesus Christ;   Rhetoric;   Salvation;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Eschatology;   Ethics;   Faith;   Hope;   Vanity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acts of the Apostles (2);   Atonement (2);   Faith;   Justification (2);   Mediation Mediator;   Preaching Christ;   Resurrection of Christ;   Sacrifice (2);   Trust;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Resurrection;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Asleep;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Philetus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
King James Version (1611)
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine, ye are yet in your sinnes.
King James Version
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
English Standard Version
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
New American Standard Bible
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
New Century Version
And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith has nothing to it; you are still guilty of your sins.
Amplified Bible
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless and powerless [mere delusion]; you are still in your sins [and under the control and penalty of sin].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
Legacy Standard Bible
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
Berean Standard Bible
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
Contemporary English Version
Unless Christ was raised to life, your faith is useless, and you are still living in your sins.
Darby Translation
but if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Easy-to-Read Version
And if Christ has not been raised from death, then your faith is for nothing; you are still guilty of your sins.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine: ye are yet in your sinnes.
George Lamsa Translation
And if Christ did not rise, your belief is in vain; and you are yet in your sins.
Good News Translation
And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.
Lexham English Bible
But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty; you are still in your sins.
Literal Translation
But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is foolish; you are still in your sins.
American Standard Version
and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Bible in Basic English
And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.
Hebrew Names Version
If Messiah has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
International Standard Version
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless and you are still in your sins.Romans 4:25;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
and if Meshiha hath not risen, your faith is made void and you are still in your sins.
Murdock Translation
And if the Messiah rose not, your faith is inane; and ye are yet in your sins:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If it be so, that Christ rose not againe, then is your fayth vayne, and ye are yet in your sinnes.
English Revised Version
and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
World English Bible
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are still in your sins.
Weymouth's New Testament
and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and if Crist roos not ayen, oure feith is veyn; and yit ye ben in youre synnes.
Update Bible Version
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith [is] vain; you are yet in your sins.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if Christ is not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.
New English Translation
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
New King James Version
And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
New Living Translation
And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins.
New Life Bible
If Christ was not raised from the dead, your faith is worth nothing and you are still living in your sins.
New Revised Standard
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if Christ hath not been raised, to no purpose, is your faith, yet, are ye in your sins!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are yet in your sins.
Revised Standard Version
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
If it be so yt Christ rose not then is youre fayth in vayne and yet are ye in youre synnes.
Young's Literal Translation
and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf Christ be not rysen agayne, then is youre faith in vayne, and ye are yet in youre synnes:
Mace New Testament (1729)
and if Christ was not raised, your faith is meer illusion, your sins are not yet forgiven.
Simplified Cowboy Version
And if Jesus is still dead, then so is our faith. If Jesus is still dead, then we are still guilty of our sins and will pay for them in full.

Contextual Overview

12 But if it has been proclaimed that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you are saying there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then the Messiah has not been raised; 14 and if the Messiah has not been raised, then what we have proclaimed is in vain; also your trust is in vain; 15 furthermore, we are shown up as false witnesses for God in having testified that God raised up the Messiah, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, then the Messiah has not been raised either; 17 and if the Messiah has not been raised, your trust is useless, and you are still in your sins. 18 Also, if this is the case, those who died in union with the Messiah are lost. 19 If it is only for this life that we have put our hope in the Messiah, we are more pitiable than anyone.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

your: 1 Corinthians 15:2, 1 Corinthians 15:14, Romans 4:25

ye are: Ezekiel 33:10, John 8:21-24, Acts 5:31, Acts 13:38, Acts 13:39, Romans 5:10, Romans 8:33, Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:23-28, Hebrews 9:22-28, Hebrews 10:4-12, 1 Peter 1:3, 1 Peter 1:21

Reciprocal: Ezra 9:15 - in our trespasses Galatians 2:21 - Christ

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
Avram replied, " Adonai , God, what good will your gifts be to me if I continue childless; and Eli‘ezer from Dammesek inherits my possessions?
Genesis 15:3
You haven't given me a child," Avram continued, "so someone born in my house will be my heir."
Genesis 15:18
That day Adonai made a covenant with Avram: "I have given this land to your descendants — from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River —
Genesis 15:19
the territory of the Keni, the K'nizi, the Kadmoni,
Deuteronomy 4:20
No, you Adonai has taken and brought out of the smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of inheritance for him, as you are today.
Judges 6:21
Then the angel of Adonai reached out with the stick he was holding, touched the meat and matzot, and fire shot up out of the rock and burned up the meat and matzot. Then the angel of Adonai disappeared before his eyes.
Judges 13:20
as the flame went up toward the sky from the altar, the angel of Adonai went up in the flame from the altar. When Manoach and his wife saw it, they fell to the ground on their faces.
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke arose in his nostrils; and from his mouth, devouring fire, with coals blazing from it.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Then David built an altar to Adonai there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called on Adonai , who answered him from heaven by fire on the altar for burnt offerings.
Isaiah 62:1
For Tziyon's sake I will not be silent, for Yerushalayim's sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out brightly and her salvation like a blazing torch.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain,.... As before in 1 Corinthians 15:14 not only the doctrine of faith, but the grace of faith in Christ; even that faith, which is the faith of God's elect; the pure gift of his grace, and the operation of his power; which Christ is the object, author, and finisher of; and which he prays for, that it may not fail; and to which salvation is so often promised in the sacred Scriptures; and yet is vain, than which nothing can be more absurd: it follows,

ye are yet in your sins: in a state of nature and unregeneracy, under the power and dominion of sin, being neither regenerated nor sanctified; for regeneration is owing to the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and is a branch of the power, virtue, and efficacy of it: but if Christ is not risen, there never was, is, or will be any such thing as regeneration and sanctification; things, if ever wrought by the Spirit, are done by him in virtue, and in imitation of the resurrection, as well as the death of Christ: moreover, if Christ is not risen, his people are under the guilt of their sins; there is no expiation nor remission of them, nor justification from them; for though he was delivered as a sacrifice to atone for their offences, and his blood was shed to obtain the forgiveness of their sins, yet he must be raised again for their justification, and be exalted as a Prince and a Saviour, as to give repentance, so remission of sins, or they will never enjoy these blessings; for notwithstanding his sufferings and death, if he lies under the power of the grave, they must remain under the power and guilt of sin, and be liable to everlasting punishment for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your faith is vain, - 1 Corinthians 15:14. The meaning of this passage here is, that their faith was vain, “because,” if Christ was not raised up, they were yet unpardoned sinners. The pardon of sin was connected with the belief of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and, if he was not raised, they were still in a state of sin.

Ye are yet in your sins - Your sins are yet unpardoned. They can be forgiven only by faith in him, and by the efficacy of his blood. But if he was not raised, he was an impostor; and, of course, all your hopes of pardon by him, and through him, must be vain. The argument in this verse consists in an appeal to their Christian experience and their hopes. It may be thus expressed:

(1) You have reason to believe that your sins are forgiven. You cherish that belief on evidence that is satisfactory to you. But if Christ is not raised, that cannot be true. He was an impostor, and sins cannot be forgiven by him. As you are not, and cannot be prepared to admit that your sins are not forgiven, you cannot admit a doctrine which involves that.

(2) You have evidence that you are not under the dominion of sin. You have repented of it; have forsaken it; and are leading a holy life. You know that, and cannot be induced to doubt this fact. But all that is to be traced to the doctrine that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. It is only by believing that, and the doctrines which are connected with it, that the power of sin in the heart has been destroyed. And as you “cannot” doubt that under the influence of “that truth” you have been enabled to break off from your sins, so you cannot admit a doctrine which would involve it as a consequence that you are yet under the condemnation and the dominion of sin. You must believe, therefore, that the Lord Jesus rose; and that, if he rose, others will also. This argument is good also now, just so far as there is evidence that, through the belief of a risen Saviour, the dominion of sin has been broken; and every Christian is, therefore, in an important sense, a witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, a living proof that a system which can work so great changes, and produce such evidence that sins are forgiven as are furnished in the conversion of sinners, must be from God; and, of course, that the work of the Lord Jesus was accepted, and that he was raised up from the dead.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. Ye are yet in your sins. — If Christ has not risen from the dead, there is no proof that he has not been justly put to death. If he were a malefactor, God would not work a miracle to raise him from the dead. If he has not been raised from the dead, there is a presumption that he has been put to death justly; and, if so, consequently he has made no atonement; and ye are yet in your sins-under the power, guilt, and condemnation of them. All this reasoning of the apostle goes to prove that at Corinth, even among those false teachers, the innocency of our Lord was allowed, and the reality of his resurrection not questioned.


 
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