1 Corinthians 15:17

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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 4:25 : 25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.
  • 1 Cor 15:14 : 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in. 7 “Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’” 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law), 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second. 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,
  • 1 Pet 1:21 : 21 Through him you now trust 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 the others who became priests were numerous, because death prevented them from continuing in office, 24 but he holds his priesthood permanently since he lives forever. 25 So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. 26 For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 27 He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.
  • Heb 9:22-28 : 22 Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 23 So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us. 25 And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice. 27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment, 28 so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
  • Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died(and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.
  • Ezek 33:10 : 10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel,‘This is what you have said:“Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’
  • John 8:21-24 : 21 Where Jesus Came From and Where He is Going Then Jesus said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” 22 So the Jewish leaders began to say,“Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says,‘Where I am going you cannot come.’” 23 Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world. 24 Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
  • Acts 5:31 : 31 God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

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    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

    12No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

    13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

    14And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

    15Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • 1 Cor 15:18-22
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    18Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

    19For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.

    20But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

    21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

    22For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

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    2and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.

    3For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

    4and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,

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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

    10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

    11Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21Through him you now trust 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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    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

    9We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

  • Col 2:12-13
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    12Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

    13And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

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    29Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

  • 1 Thess 4:14
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  • Gal 3:4
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    4Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

  • Eph 5:14
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    14For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

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  • Rom 4:24-25
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    24but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

    25He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

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    30But God raised him from the dead,

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    6He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,

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    15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

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    5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

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    1Exhortations to Seek the Things Above Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

  • 1 Cor 15:34-35
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    34Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God– I say this to your shame!

    35The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

  • Rom 6:11
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    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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    42It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

    43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

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    6He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

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    15And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up– and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

  • Acts 17:3
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    3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying,“This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.”

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    18They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.