Then also (αρα κα). Inevitable inference.

Have perished (απωλοντο). Did perish. Second aorist middle indic…

Then they also, etc. This verse contains a statement of another consequence that must follow from the denial of the resurrection—that all …

For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also w…

Paul draws additional hypothetical conclusions from the thesis that Christ has not risen from the dead: (1) Faith is not only vain or meaningless (…

Then they who are fallen asleep. Intending to prove that if the resurrection of Christ is taken away, faith is useless, and Christianity i…

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ
That is, who are dead, and have died in Christ: death is often repr…

Having shown that Christ was risen, the apostle answers those who said there would be no resurrection. There would have been no justification or sa…

Having built up faith in the resurrection of Christ, the Apostle now proves the future resurrection of the dead by means of Christ's resurrection. …