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New Living Translation
1 Corinthians 15:17
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And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine, ye are yet in your sinnes.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith has nothing to it; you are still guilty of your sins.
and 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].
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
Unless Christ was raised to life, your faith is useless, and you are still living in your sins.
and if the Messiah has not been raised, your trust is useless, and you are still in your sins.
but if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.
And if Christ has not been raised from death, then your faith is for nothing; you are still guilty of your sins.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine: ye are yet in your sinnes.
And if Christ did not rise, your belief is in vain; and you are yet in your sins.
And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.
But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty; you are still in your sins.
But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is foolish; you are still in your sins.
and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.
If Messiah has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless and you are still in your sins.Romans 4:25;">[xr]
and if Meshiha hath not risen, your faith is made void and you are still in your sins.
And if the Messiah rose not, your faith is inane; and ye are yet in your sins:
If it be so, that Christ rose not againe, then is your fayth vayne, and ye are yet in your sinnes.
and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are still in your sins.
and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
and if Crist roos not ayen, oure feith is veyn; and yit ye ben in youre synnes.
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith [is] vain; you are yet in your sins.
And if Christ is not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
If Christ was not raised from the dead, your faith is worth nothing and you are still living in your sins.
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
And, if Christ hath not been raised, to no purpose, is your faith, yet, are ye in your sins!
And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are yet in your sins.
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
If it be so yt Christ rose not then is youre fayth in vayne and yet are ye in youre synnes.
and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;
But yf Christ be not rysen agayne, then is youre faith in vayne, and ye are yet in youre synnes:
and if Christ was not raised, your faith is meer illusion, your sins are not yet forgiven.
And if Jesus is still dead, then so is our faith. If Jesus is still dead, then we are still guilty of our sins and will pay for them in full.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
your: 1 Corinthians 15:2, 1 Corinthians 15:14, Romans 4:25
ye are: Ezekiel 33:10, John 8:21-24, Acts 5:31, Acts 13:38, Acts 13:39, Romans 5:10, Romans 8:33, Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:23-28, Hebrews 9:22-28, Hebrews 10:4-12, 1 Peter 1:3, 1 Peter 1:21
Reciprocal: Ezra 9:15 - in our trespasses Galatians 2:21 - Christ
Cross-References
But Abram replied, "O Sovereign Lord , what good are all your blessings when I don't even have a son? Since you've given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.
You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir."
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
Remember that the Lord rescued you from the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession, which is what you are today.
Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and bread with the tip of the staff in his hand, and fire flamed up from the rock and consumed all he had brought. And the angel of the Lord disappeared.
As the flames from the altar shot up toward the sky, the angel of the Lord ascended in the fire. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell with their faces to the ground.
Smoke poured from his nostrils; fierce flames leaped from his mouth. Glowing coals blazed forth from him.
David built an altar there to the Lord and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. And when David prayed, the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn up the offering on the altar.
Because I love Zion, I will not keep still. Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem, I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn, and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain,.... As before in 1 Corinthians 15:14 not only the doctrine of faith, but the grace of faith in Christ; even that faith, which is the faith of God's elect; the pure gift of his grace, and the operation of his power; which Christ is the object, author, and finisher of; and which he prays for, that it may not fail; and to which salvation is so often promised in the sacred Scriptures; and yet is vain, than which nothing can be more absurd: it follows,
ye are yet in your sins: in a state of nature and unregeneracy, under the power and dominion of sin, being neither regenerated nor sanctified; for regeneration is owing to the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and is a branch of the power, virtue, and efficacy of it: but if Christ is not risen, there never was, is, or will be any such thing as regeneration and sanctification; things, if ever wrought by the Spirit, are done by him in virtue, and in imitation of the resurrection, as well as the death of Christ: moreover, if Christ is not risen, his people are under the guilt of their sins; there is no expiation nor remission of them, nor justification from them; for though he was delivered as a sacrifice to atone for their offences, and his blood was shed to obtain the forgiveness of their sins, yet he must be raised again for their justification, and be exalted as a Prince and a Saviour, as to give repentance, so remission of sins, or they will never enjoy these blessings; for notwithstanding his sufferings and death, if he lies under the power of the grave, they must remain under the power and guilt of sin, and be liable to everlasting punishment for it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Your 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 blood. But if he was not raised, he was an impostor; and, of course, all your hopes of pardon by him, and through him, must be vain. The argument in this verse consists in an appeal to their Christian experience and their hopes. It may be thus expressed:
(1) You have reason to believe that your sins are forgiven. You cherish that belief on evidence that is satisfactory to you. But if Christ is not raised, that cannot be true. He was an impostor, and sins cannot be forgiven by him. As you are not, and cannot be prepared to admit that your sins are not forgiven, you cannot admit a doctrine which involves that.
(2) You have evidence that you are not under the dominion of sin. You have repented of it; have forsaken it; and are leading a holy life. You know that, and cannot be induced to doubt this fact. But all that is to be traced to the doctrine that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. It is only by believing that, and the doctrines which are connected with it, that the power of sin in the heart has been destroyed. And as you “cannot” doubt that under the influence of “that truth” you have been enabled to break off from your sins, so you cannot admit a doctrine which would involve it as a consequence that you are yet under the condemnation and the dominion of sin. You must believe, therefore, that the Lord Jesus rose; and that, if he rose, others will also. This argument is good also now, just so far as there is evidence that, through the belief of a risen Saviour, the dominion of sin has been broken; and every Christian is, therefore, in an important sense, a witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, a living proof that a system which can work so great changes, and produce such evidence that sins are forgiven as are furnished in the conversion of sinners, must be from God; and, of course, that the work of the Lord Jesus was accepted, and that he was raised up from the dead.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. Ye 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 of the apostle goes to prove that at Corinth, even among those false teachers, the innocency of our Lord was allowed, and the reality of his resurrection not questioned.
