1 Corinthians 15:17

1 Corinthians 15:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
• New International Version (NIV)And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!

Context of 1 Corinthians 15:17

15We would have been telling lies about God, because we told you that God raised Christ up after his death. But if dead people do not live again, that would not be true. 16So, if dead people never rise to a new life, then Christ himself did not rise after his death. And if Christ did not rise, then you have believed a false message. God would still say that you are guilty, because of your sins. 18Also, think about those people who believed in Christ but they have already died. If dead people do not rise to a new life, those people would have no life with God. 19As believers, we trust Christ to lead us into a new life after death. But if we only trust him to help us in this life, we should be very sad. Everybody should be very sorry for us, more than for anyone else.

1 Corinthians 15:17 word by word

εἰ δὲ Χριστὸς οὐκ ἐγήγερται, ματαία ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἔτι ἐστὲ ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andδέde · thenG1161
• ifεἰei · ifG1487
• ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
• beἐγείρωegeirō · to ariseG1453
• notοὐou · noG3756
• yourσύsu · youG4771
• faithὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• faithπίστιςpistis · faithG4102
• vainμάταιοςmataios · futileG3152
• ye areεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• yetἔτιeti · stillG2089
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• sinsἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 15:17

• 1 Corinthians 15:2Because of the message that I spoke to you, God will save you. He will save you if you continue to trust that same good news. If you do not, you have believed it for nothing.
• Romans 4:25God let people kill Jesus on the cross because of the wrong things that we have done. Then God raised Jesus from death, to show that he would accept us as right with him.
• Ezekiel 33:10Son of man, give Israel's people this message: “You are saying, ‘The punishment for our sins is too much for us. We are dying because of all the bad things that we have done. What should we do so that we can continue to live?’ ”
• John 8:21Jesus said to them again, ‘I will go away and you will look for me. But even when you die, God will still not have forgiven your sins. You cannot go where I will go.’
• Acts 5:31God raised Jesus and he put him in the most important place at his right side. Jesus is now the one who leads us and the one who saves us. He has made a way for the people of Israel to turn back to God. He wants us to stop doing wrong things. Then God will forgive us for our sins.
• Acts 13:38My friends, I want all of you to know this. God forgives us for the bad things that we have done. He does this because of what Jesus did. That is my message to you.
• Romans 5:10While we were still God's enemies, God's Son died on our behalf. As a result, we became God's friends. So, now that we are God's friends, his Son will certainly save us. Christ will save us because he is alive again.
• Romans 8:33Nobody can say that God's people are guilty. God himself has accepted us as right with him.
• Hebrews 7:23In the old way, there were many Levite priests. Each one of them died, so that they could not continue to serve God as priests.
• Hebrews 9:22God's Law taught that blood was necessary to make almost everything clean. We see that God does not forgive people for their sins unless there is blood from a death.
• Hebrews 10:4We know that the blood of bulls and of goats cannot remove the punishment for sins.
• 1 Peter 1:3We praise God, who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He is very kind to us, so that he has given us new life. This is possible because God raised Jesus Christ to new life after his death. Now, as we live, we are sure that we will receive good things from God.

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 15:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Ye 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Your 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-19Verses 12-19 Having shown that Christ was risen, the apostle answers those who said there would be no resurrection. There had been no justification, or salvation, if Christ had not risen. And must not faith in Christ be vain, and of no use, if he is still among the dead? The proof of the resurrection of the body is the resurrection of our Lord. Even those who died in the faith, had perished in their sins, if Christ had not risen. All who believe in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-18If Christ did not rise from the dead, then the Christian faith is pointless. However, Jesus’ resurrection proves that His sacrifice completely atoned for human sins (see 15:3). Without Christ's resurrection, people remain unforgiven and under God's judgment, still guilty of their sins (see Romans 3:19; Ephesians 2:1–3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. vain--Ye are, by the very fact (supposing the case to be as the skeptics maintained), frustrated of all which "your faith" appropriates: Ye are still under the everlasting condemnation of your sins (even in the disembodied state which is here referred to), from which Christ's resurrection is our justification (Ro 4:25): "saved by his life" (Ro 5:10).Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Corinthians 15:17

• Immortality
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In the dictionaries

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Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings