1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Christ has not been raised, then vain is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 a resurrection of the dead is impossible, Christ has not been raised.

15We are, indeed, also found false witnesses of God; for we have testified against God, that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead are not raised.

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Cross References

Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world, in righteousness, by the man whom he has chosen, giving to all assurance of this, by having raised him from the dead.

1 Corinthians 15:17and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.

1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also should we believe that God will, through Jesus, bring with him those who sleep.

James 2:20But will you know, O vain man, that faith without 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 →

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