1 Corinthians 15:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

And if Christ is not risen, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

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  • Rom 4:25 : 25 Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
  • 1 Cor 15:14 : 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5 Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God. 8 Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law), 9 Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first that he may establish the second. 10 By that will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God;
  • 1 Pet 1:21 : 21 Who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
  • Heb 7:23-28 : 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death: 24 But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able also to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens; 27 Who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for he did this once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weaknesses; but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who is perfected forever.
  • Heb 9:22-28 : 22 And almost all things are purified by the law with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place every year with the blood of others; 26 For then He would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and to those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
  • Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
  • Ezek 33:10 : 10 Therefore, O son of man, speak to the house of Israel; this is what you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them, how should we then live?
  • John 8:21-24 : 21 Then Jesus said again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come. 22 Then the Jews said, Will he kill himself? because he says, Where I go, you cannot come. 23 And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins.
  • Acts 5:31 : 31 Him God has exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Let it be known to you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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    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?

    13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen:

    14And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain.

    15Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise if in fact the dead do not rise.

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    19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most miserable.

    20But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

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    2By which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

    3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;

    4And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures:

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    21Who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

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    12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are raised with him through the faith of the working of God, who has raised him from the dead.

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    34Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

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    11Likewise, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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    3Opening and explaining that Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is Christ.

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