1 Corinthians 15:13

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. It matters because denying resurrection in principle denies Christ's own rising.

Cross-references · 14

• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• 1 Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
• Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
• Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Rom 4:24–25but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
• 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 2 Cor 4:10–14always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• 1 Cor 15:20But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• Col 3:1–4If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
• 2 Tim 4:8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
• Acts 23:8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
• Rom 8:23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
• Heb 2:14Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

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