1 Corinthians 15:18
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 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.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
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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
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Read in contextRevelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:6
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
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