the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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1 Corinthians 15:18
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And those in Christ who have already died are lost.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
And therto they which are fallen a slepe in Christ are perished.
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Messiah have perished.
Yes, even those who have diedhave fallen asleep">[fn] in Christ are lost.
Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
And those in Christ who have already died are lost.
Then they also that have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Then also they who sleep in Christ are perished.
It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
And thanne thei that han diede in Crist, han perischid.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.
Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.
Also, if this is the case, those who died in union with the Messiah are lost.
Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
And already have they too who have slept in Meshiha perished.
and also, doubtless, they who have fallen asleep in the Messiah, have perished.
Then they also which are fallen asleepe in Christ, are perished.
In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost!
Then the Christians who have already died are lost in sin.
Then those also who have died in Christ have perished.
And so they which are a sleepe in Christ, are perished.
And also, then, those who have died in Christ have perished.
Hence also, they who are fallen asleep in Christ, are lost:
Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
Therfore, they which are fallen in a slepe in Christe, are perisshed.
It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.
Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
And then those that fell asleep in Christ were lost.
then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;
they also that are falle a slepe in Christ, are perished.
then they too who died christians, are entirely lost.
Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
All those cowboys who rode for Christ would be lost if he wasn't alive today.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
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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
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And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him.
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them 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.
