Then your faith is a delusion. Faith is based on facts! [See note on James 2:19.] "If Christ has not been raised (and his body still lies on the Judean hill), then he is not the Savior! This would mean that he is only another dead man who could not even save himself. You are still lost in your sins, because he cannot forgive them - IF HE HAS NOT RAISED TO LIFE!"
Verse 17. _YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS._] If Christ has not risen from the dead, there is no proof that he has not been _justly_ put to death. If _he_ were a _malefactor_, God would not work a miracle to...
YOUR FAITH IS VAIN, - 1 Corinthians 15:14. The meaning of this passage here is, that their faith was vain, “because,” if Christ was not raised up, they were yet unpardoned sinners. The pardon of sin w...
III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1...
How, in face of this preaching, can any Christian say there is no resurrection? If a resurrection of the dead is out of the question this involves a denial that Christ has been raised. This fact, howe...
JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult...
If it is continually proclaimed that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some among you say that the resurrection of the dead does not exist? If the resurrection from among the dead does not...
VAIN. to no purpose. Greek. _mataios._ See Acts 14:15. Not the same word as in verses: 1Co 15:2, 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 15:14;...
_your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins_ Christ came, not only to make reconciliation for sin, but to free us from it. Cf. Romans 6:11-23; Romans 8:2. And this He did by proclaiming a Life. He fi...
ΜΑΤΑΊΑ. This word is in all probability synonymous with κενή above, 1 Corinthians 15:14. But Meyer would distinguish between them. The former with him means _without result_, the latter _without reali...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58. THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION This chapter is one of the deepest and most mysterious in the Bible. It is the one exception to the statement in ch. 3 that St Paul was unable t...
_CONSEQUENCES OF DENYING THE RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:12-19:_ Paul asked, "If we preach that Christ was raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?" If th...
ΜΆΤΑΙΟΣ (G3152) тщетный, пустой. Это слово подчеркивает бесцельность и бессмысленность, безрезультатность (Trench, Synonyms, 180f; NIDNTT, 1:549-52)....
DISCOURSE: 1991 THE NECESSITY OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION 1 Corinthians 15:17. _If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins: then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are...
YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS.— The word _sin_ is frequently used for the _punishment_ due to _sin;_ and in that sense it should be understood here: "Ye are yet liable to the punishment of your sins." It is...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Its Holiness (1 Corinthians 15:12-34) 12 Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13But if th...
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. VAIN. Ye are, if the case be as the sceptics maintain, frustrated of all which "your faith" appropriates: ye are still unde...
12 The resurrection is the very fundamental of fundamentals. The death of Christ is essential to the evangel, yet it is not enough. A dead Christ cannot save. The resurrection is not only essential, b...
YET IN YOUR SINS] not justified from them (Romans 2:25); unforgiven, unrenewed. 'Christ's Resurrection is the seal of our justification and the spring of our sanctification' (Findlay). If there be no...
_(F) THE FACT AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD_ Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this would...
DENIAL OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD LOGICALLY INVOLVES THE DENIAL OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION, WHICH WOULD OVERTHROW THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN FAITH. The belief in the resurrection of the dead is bound up w...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *RESURRECTION 15:1-58 The reason that Paul was writing about the *resurrection is in verse 12. Some Christians were saying that there i...
CHAPTER 23 CONSEQUENCES OF DENYING RESURRECTION IN endeavoring to restore among the Corinthians the belief in the resurrection of the body, Paul shows the fundamental place occupied in the Christian...
CHAPTER 21 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST I. ITS PLACE IN THE CHRISTIAN CREED PAUL having now settled the minor questions of order in public worship, marriage, intercourse with the heathen, and the othe...
1 Corinthians 15:17-18 unfold this latter consequence in a form parl [2326] to the former: εἰ δὲ … ἄρα (1 Corinthians 15:14). For ματαία (syn [2327] with ἀργή, James 2:20; with ἀνωφελεῖς,...
§ 51. IF CHRIST IS NOT RISEN? Paul has intrenched his own position; he advances to demolish that of his opponents. His negative demonstration, taking the form of a destructive hypothetical syllogism,...
CHRIST'S RESURRECTION ASSURES OURS 1 Corinthians 15:12 The argument here goes to show, first, that our resurrection is intimately connected with Christ's. There must be such a thing, because he, as t...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were so...
An Empty Hope Without A Resurrected Lord Since the Corinthian brethren had accepted the fact of Christ's resurrection, as supported by the verses we studied in the last lesson, the apostle wondered wh...
And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; (7) ye are (e) yet in your sins. (7) First, seeing death is the punishment of sin, in vain should we believe that our sins were forgiven us, if they...
He brings many reasons to convince them of the resurrection. 1. If there be no resurrection for others, Christ is not risen again: but his resurrection (as he tells them ver. 4) was foretold in the Sc...
“Now, if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.” Once deny Christ's resurrection, and there is no more s...
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CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE PASSAGE. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:12-28. On this passage we find _four principal views: _ 1. Some, like Reuss, think that it applies throughout only to believers, and that it conta...
I. WITH THE FACT OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY CHRISTIAN SALVATION RISES OR FALLS. VERS. 1-34. The apostle's first care is to establish firmly the fact of the resurrection of Jesus, on which rests...
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? (13) But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: (14)...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
17._Ye are yet in your sins _For although Christ by his death atoned for our sins, that they might no more be imputed to us in the judgment of God, and has crucified our old man, that its lusts might...
But other evils had found means to introduce themselves into the midst of the shining gifts which were exercised in the bosom of the flock at Corinth. The resurrection of the dead was denied. Satan is...
AND IF CHRIST BE NOT RAISED, YOUR FAITH IS VAIN,.... As before in 1 Corinthians 15:14 not only the doctrine of faith, but the grace of faith in Christ; even that faith, which is the faith of God's ele...
And if Christ be not raised, your faith _is_ vain; ye are yet in your sins. Ver. 17. _Ye are yet in your sins_] Romans 4:25. If he had not been let out of prison, our debt had remained upon us. But G...
_Then is our preaching_ In consequence of a commission supposed to be given after his resurrection; _vain_ Without any real foundation, and destitute of truth; _and your faith_ In our preaching; _is v...
YOUR FAITH IS VAIN; it cannot save you. YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS; unpardoned, because no one can be pardoned except through the atonement and righteousness of Christ, which, if he has not risen from t...
AND IF CHRIST BE NOT RAISED, YOUR FAITH IS VAIN, YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS....
The resurrection of Christ basic for the Christian's faith:...
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is th...
AND IF CHRIST HATH NOT BEEN RAISED, YOUR FAITH IS VAIN; YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS. 'vain' -'not merely in the former sense (1 Corinthians 15:14) of being emptied of its content, but in the sense of it...
12-19 Having shown that Christ was risen, the apostle answers those who said there would be no resurrection. There had been no justification, or salvation, if Christ had not risen. And must not faith...
That is, ye are yet in your estate of nature, under the guilt and condemning power of your sins, which are not yet pardoned to you; for no sins are remitted, but upon believing in the Lord Jesus Chris...
and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. [unjustified-- Romans 4:25]...
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1 Corinthians 15:15-17 . YEA, AND WE ARE FOUND FALSE WITNESSES OF GOD, etc. The repetition and reiteration, in slightly varied forms, of the same truth gives to the statement momentous emphasis. How s...
VAIN (ματαια). Old word from adverb ματην (Matthew 15:9), devoid of truth, a lie. Stronger word than κενον in verse 1 Corinthians 15:14.YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS (ετ εστε εν ταις αμαρτιαις υμων). Be...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
1 Corinthians 15:16 The Resurrection of Christ. I. When Christ died, all died. His death was not for Himself, but for mankind. And by all being thus subjected to the punishment of sin in Him the sin...
1 Corinthians 15:12 The fact of the resurrection of Christ and the belief in a general resurrection are intimately and inseparably connected. So the Apostle Paul here, as elsewhere, teaches. The resur...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, Brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...
CONTENTS: The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers resulting from it. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Cephas, James, Adam. CONCLUSION: The resurrection of Christ, together with His...
1 Corinthians 15:1. _I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you._ We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially the d...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:17 STILL IN YOUR SINS. Jesus’ resurrection is proof that his death was an effective substitutionary sacrifice for sin....
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence...
CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proves the resurrection of the dead against the false teachers who denied it: I. From the fact of Christ's resurrection. Thus (ver. 12) he gives the bearing of...
_If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins._ It rightly follows that, if Christ has not risen, we are still in our sins; for 1. if Christ has not risen, therefore faith in a...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 15:12.—Cf. the strain of 1 Thessalonians 4:14, or Romans 8:11. Also see that it is “_Christ_” [and not first of all facts about Him] who is the burden and substance o
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _The doctrine of the resurrection. _This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and i...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 15. The Corinthian church was a real mess. A lot of carnality that led to divisions, a lot of party spirit, a real misunderstanding of the spiritual gifts, a lot o...
1 Corinthians 15:14; 1 Corinthians 15:2; 1 Peter 1:21; 1 Peter 1:3;...
Vain [μ α τ α ι α]. A different word, signifying fruitless. The difference is between reality and result....
THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL 1 Corinthians 15:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Apostle Paul said: "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and where...
Ye are still in your sins — That is, under the guilt of them. So that there needed something more than reformation, (which was plainly wrought,) in order to their being delivered from the guilt of sin...