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1 Corinthians 15:17

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:17 · World English Bible
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  • KJV And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
  • BSB And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
  • NKJV And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
  • NASB and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
  • NLT And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins.

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Cross-references · 14

  • Rom 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
  • 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,
  • 1 Cor 15:14If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
  • 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • Rom 8:33–34Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
  • Rom 5:10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
  • Acts 5:31God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
  • Heb 10:4–12For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
  • 1 Cor 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.
  • John 8:21–24Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
  • Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
  • Heb 9:22–28According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
  • Heb 7:23–28Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
  • Ezek 33:10You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

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Christ crucified is the wisdom and power of God; he is our Passover sacrificed for us, the firstfruits of resurrection, the foundation on which everything is built.

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