1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
In Context
13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ risen.
Cross References
Genesis 8:8And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
Isaiah 49:4But I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity. Yet surely the justice [due] to me is with LORD, and my recompense with my God.
Acts 17:31Because he appointed a day during which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed, having provided assurance to all men because he raised him from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins.
1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.
James 2:20But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:13-20
The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16 For if the dead rise not,… Read the whole commentary →