1 Corinthians 15:17
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
KJV
εἰ δὲ Χριστὸς οὐκ ἐγήγερται, ματαία ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν, ἔτι ἐστὲ ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ὑμῶν.
Greek NT
Quod si Christus non resurrexit, vana est fides vestra : adhuc enim estis in peccatis vestris.
Vulgate
and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
ASV
And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are yet in your sins.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
μάταιος
mataios
adjective · 6×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ὑμῶν | Treg/NIV/RP: ὑμῶν | WH: + ἐστίν
- ὑμῶν — SBLGNT
- ὑμῶν — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- + ἐστίν — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Q. How does Christ's resurrection benefit us? A. First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he might make us share in the righteousness he won for us by his death. Second, by his power we too are already now raised to a new life. Third, Christ's resurrection is a guarantee of our glorious resurrection.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:2 — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
- 1Cor 15:14 — And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
- 1Cor 15:14 — And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
- 1Pet 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,
- 1Pet 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.
- Acts 5:31 — Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
- Heb 9:22 — And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
- Heb 10:4 — For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
- John 8:21 — Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
- Rom 4:25 — Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
- Rom 4:25 — Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
- Rom 5:10 — For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- Rom 8:33 — Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.