1 Corinthians 15:18

Amplified Bible

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

Parallel Translations

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

English Standard Version
Then those also who have 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.

English Revised Version
Then they also which are 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Contextual Overview

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? 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 vain [useless, amounting to nothing], and your faith is also vain [imaginary, unfounded, devoid of value and benefit—not based on truth]. ¹⁵We are even discovered to be false witnesses [misrepresenting] God, because we testified concerning Him that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. ¹⁶For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised, either; ¹⁷and 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]. ¹⁸Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.¹⁹If we who are [abiding] in Christ have hoped only in this life [and this is all there is], then we are of all people most miserable and to be pitied.

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 third river is named Hiddekel (Tigris); it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to [honor] the LORD who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.

Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; Your reward [for obedience] shall be very great."

Genesis 15:2
Abram said, "Lord GOD, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?"

Genesis 15:3
And Abram continued, "Since You have given no child to me, one (a servant) born in my house is my heir."

Genesis 15:4
Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man [Eliezer] will not be your heir but he who shall come from your own body shall be your heir."

Genesis 15:7
And He said to him, "I am the [same] LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord GOD, by what [proof] will I know that I will inherit it?"

Genesis 15:13
God said to Abram, "Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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.