...raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And 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 perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are...

...not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19If in this life only...

...Probably capsuled in vv 16-17, as it reads, For if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised, and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Unbelief is the single greatest barrier between people and blessings. Why then are there...

...importance of the Lord's bodily resurrection: For if the dead rise not, then Is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins. To disbelieve in the bodily resurrection of the dead is to disbelieve in the bodily resurrection...

...from the dead." Romans 1 : 4. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I win raise it up." John 2: 19. "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins," I Corinthians 15: 17. "Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for...

...argument later in the same chapter 15 that the resurrection of Jesus is the basis of Christian hope: "And 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 perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are...

...sit at the right hand of God. And said Paul: "If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised. And 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 perished." 1 Corinthians 15:16-18. If for four thousand years...

...whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not, for if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. Then, they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are...

...not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: "And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. (1 Corinthians 15:14-18)....

...Christ efficacious in the forgiveness of sins, and "declares Christ to be the Son of God with power." "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins." Justification is not an end in itself, but in order that the God of peace "might sanctify...