1 Corintios 15:15

15 Aún más, somos hallados testigos falsos de Dios, porque hemos testificado contra Dios que El resucitó a Cristo, a quien no resucitó, si en verdad los muertos no resucitan.

1 Corintios 15:15 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:15

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God
The apostles were chosen to be witnesses of the resurrection of Christ; he appeared to them, and was seen by them for this purpose; and they were sent into all the world, to bear their testimony to this truth, which they accordingly did: now if Christ is not risen, they have bore a false testimony; and what greater scandal, or a more odious character can be fixed upon a man, than to be a false witness? but God forbid that such an imputation should be fastened upon the holy apostles of Christ, who cannot be thought to have any sinister end in publishing such a falsehood; who were sure on account of declaring it, and abiding by it, to meet with nothing but hatred, reproach, persecution, poverty, and death; but this is not all, nor the worst; for if they are false witnesses, they are false witnesses of God; they are of his suborning; he selected them as witnesses; he must put this lie into their mouths, and send them into the world under his authority to publish it; than which to say nothing can be thought of more blasphemous and execrable; and yet this must follow, upon a denial of the resurrection of Christ:

because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he
raised not up, if so be the dead rise not;
it may be read, "we have testified against God", as the Vulgate Latin does; for as it must be bringing a false testimony from God, so it must be bearing a false testimony against him, to say that he raised Christ from the dead, when he is not risen; which must be the case, if there is no resurrection of the dead.

1 Corintios 15:15 In-Context

13 Y si no hay resurrección de muertos, entonces ni siquiera Cristo ha resucitado;

14 y si Cristo no ha resucitado, vana es entonces nuestra predicación, y vana también vuestra fe.

15 Aún más, somos hallados testigos falsos de Dios, porque hemos testificado contra Dios que El resucitó a Cristo, a quien no resucitó, si en verdad los muertos no resucitan.

16 Pues si los muertos no resucitan, entonces ni siquiera Cristo ha resucitado;

17 y si Cristo no ha resucitado, vuestra fe es falsa; todavía estáis en vuestros pecados.