1 Corinthians 15:14

And if the Messiah hath not risen, our preaching is vain, and your faith also vain.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13And if there is no reviviscence of the dead, the Messiah also hath not risen.

15And we too are found false witnesses of God; for we have testified concerning God, that he raised up the Messiah, when he did not raise him up.

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Cross References

Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge all the earth, with righteousness, by the man whom he hath designated: and he turneth every man to faith in him, in that he raised him from the dead.

1 Corinthians 15:17And if the Messiah rose not, your faith is inane; and ye are yet in your sins:

1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, bring with him.

James 2:20Wouldst thou know, O frail 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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