1 Corinthians 15:14

and if Christ be not risen, vain indeed is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

Thomas Haweis 1795 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 there is no resurrection of the dead, neither is Christ risen:

15Yea, and we also are found false witnesses for God; because we have testified on the behalf of God, that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if indeed the dead are not raised.

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Cross References

Acts 17:31because he hath fixed the day in which he will judge the whole world in righteousness by the man whom he hath appointed; affording evidence of this to all, by raising him from the dead.

1 Corinthians 15:17and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, so also those that have fallen asleep for Jesus shall God bring with him.

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 →

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