What Does 1 Corinthians 15:17 Mean in the King James?
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse makes resurrection the hinge: without the Anointed One being raised, trust collapses and the reader remains within the missing.
THE MEANING
The truth of the Anointed One being raised is what gives your trust its footing. If he is not raised, it comes to nothing, and you remain within the missing named here.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the idea that trust remains intact if resurrection is only an optional symbol: without the raising, trust is futile and the missing remains.
THE ROOT
ἐγήγερται
egēgertai
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
To wake, rouse, or raise up.
“raised” in this verse is egēgertai. This verb can mean both awakening and raising, so resurrection carries the concrete image of waking from death. Its perfect form presents the raising as accomplished with a continuing result; the verse makes that act the condition under which trust has force.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: To wake or rouse someone, including from sleep.
ἐγείρω
The same verb holds the image of waking within resurrection: death is what the raised one wakes from.
synegeirō: To raise someone together with another.
συνεγείρω
This compound carries the same raising into shared life, as when the verse’s raising verb family is applied to the reader.
πίστις
pistis
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
To persuade, win confidence, or bring to trust.
“faith” in this verse is pistis. This word family joins persuasion with reliance; here pistis is trust, the leaning of one’s full weight. The verse names the Anointed One’s raising as the decisive ground of that trust.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: To persuade or win someone’s confidence.
πείθω
This family link shows trust as reliance grounded in what convinces, not a detached feeling.
pisteuō: To trust or entrust oneself.
πιστεύω
This verb gives the noun’s trust a lived shape: placing oneself in what is trusted.
ἁμαρτίαις
hamartiais
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτάνω
hamartanō
To miss, err, or fail.
“sins” in this verse is hamartiais. The noun names the condition of missing, not a mysterious stain detached from life. Without the raising, the verse says the reader is still within that condition.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: To miss or err.
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb names the act behind the verse’s “missing”; the raising determines whether the reader remains within its effects.
hamartēma: An error or act of missing.
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun makes the word family’s link between missing and its concrete result visible.
THE PATTERN
God’s raising turns the threat of death into life that can be lived now.
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.THE THREAD
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:The same raising verb family is now applied to you: you are raised together with him. That carries this verse’s hinge into the present, where your life is joined to the raising.
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