1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vaine, and your faith is also vaine.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
In Context
13For if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
Cross References
Genesis 8:8Againe he sent a doue from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.
Isaiah 49:4And I said, I haue labored in vaine: I haue spent my strength in vaine and for nothing: but my iudgement is with the Lord, and my woorke with my God.
Acts 17:31Because hee hath appoynted a day in the which he wil iudge the world in righteousnes, by that man whome hee hath appoynted, whereof he hath giuen an assurance to all men, in that hee hath raised him from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vaine: ye are yet in your sinnes.
1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we beleeue that Iesus is dead, and is risen, euen so them which sleepe in Iesus, will God bring with him.
James 2:20But wilt thou vnderstand, O thou vaine man, that the faith which is without workes, 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 →