17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
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Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. …
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)Having confirmed the truth of our Saviour’s resurrection, the apostle goes on to refute those among the Corinthians who said there would be none: If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead ? 1 Cor. 15:12. It seems from this passage, and the course of the argument, there were some among the Corinthians who thought the resurrect…
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