1 Corinthians 15:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 4:25
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
1 Peter 1:3
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,
1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Romans 8:33-34
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. …
1 Peter 1:21
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.

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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 resurrecti…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. vain--Ye are, by the very fact (supposing the case to be as the skeptics maintained), frustrated of all which “your faith” appropriates: Ye are still under the everlasting condemnation of your sins (even in the disembodied state which is here referred to), from which Christ’s resurrection is our justification (Ro 4:25): “saved by his life” (Ro 5:10).