◄ 1 Corinthians 15:18 ►
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Good News Translation
It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.

New Revised Standard Version
Then those also who have died in Christ have perished.

Contemporary English Version
And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost.

New American Bible
Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

fallen.

1 Corinthians 15:6 Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep.

1 Thessalonians 4:13,14 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. . . .

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

Context
The Resurrection of the Dead
…17And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are yet in your sins. 18Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.…
Cross References
Acts 7:60
And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

1 Corinthians 15:6
Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep.

1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment and with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ shall rise first.

Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

1 Corinthians 15:17
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