1 Corinthians 15:18
16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
- KJV
- Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
- WEB
- Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
- ASV
- Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
- DARBY
- Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
- BLB
- Then also those having fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
- ÅB
- da er altså også de fortapt som er hensovet i Kristus.
- OTB
- Da har også de som har gått bort i Kristus gått til grunne.
- B1930
- da er altså også de fortapt som er hensovet i Kristus.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Thessalonians 4:13–14
Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
Read in contextRevelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:6
After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
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