Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 1Cor 15:17

“And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain, for you are yet in your sins.”

“vain--Ye are, by the very fact (supposing the case to be as the skeptics maintained), frustrated of all which "your faith" appropriates: Ye are still under the everlasting condemnation of your sins (even in the disembodied state which is here referred to), from which Christ's resurrection is our justification (Rom 4:25): "saved by his life" (Rom 5:10).”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.