1 Corinthians 15:14
but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also [is] our preaching, and vain also your faith.
Darby Translation
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 not a resurrection of [those that are] dead, neither is Christ raised:
Cross References
Genesis 8:8And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had become low on the ground.
Isaiah 49:4And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is with Jehovah, and my work with my God.
Acts 17:31because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised him from among [the] dead.
1 Corinthians 15:17but if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.
James 2:20But wilt thou 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 →