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1 Cor. 15:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And if Christ be not raised, your faithb is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

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Rom. 4:25• ²⁵Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. (Rom. 4:25)

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1 Cor. 15:2,14• ²By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
¹⁴And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. (1 Cor. 15:2,14)

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Rom. 4:25• ²⁵Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. (Rom. 4:25)

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Ezek. 33:10• ¹⁰Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? (Ezek. 33:10)

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John 8:21‑24• ²¹Then 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.
²²Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
²³And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
²⁴I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. (John 8:21‑24)

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Acts 5:31• ³¹Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. (Acts 5:31)

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Acts 13:38‑39• ³⁸Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
³⁹And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13:38‑39)

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Rom. 5:10• ¹⁰For 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. 5:10)

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Rom. 8:33‑34• ³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
³⁴Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Rom. 8:33‑34)

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Heb. 7:23‑28• ²³And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
²⁴But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
²⁵Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
²⁶For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
²⁷Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
²⁸For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. (Heb. 7:23‑28)

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Heb. 9:22‑28• ²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
²³It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
²⁴For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
²⁵Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
²⁶For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
²⁷And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
²⁸So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Heb. 9:22‑28)

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Heb. 10:4‑12• ⁴For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
⁵Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
⁶In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
⁷Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
⁸Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
⁹Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
¹⁰By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
¹¹And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
¹²But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; (Heb. 10:4‑12)

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1 Peter 1:3,21• ³Blessed 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,
²¹Who 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. (1 Peter 1:3,21)

• Now he goes farther, and, instead of speaking of their subjective state as a light reception of the truth, he points out that, if Christ has not been raised, as the gospel declares, the preaching of the apostles was objectively as empty (κενόν) as the faith of the saints. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 15:12-19” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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but if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

W. Kelly Translation

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and if Christ is not raised, vain [is] your faith; ye are yet in your sins;