1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
In Context
13If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.
Cross References
Acts 17:31seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long, He will judge the world in righteousness, through the instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work, and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him from the dead."
1 Corinthians 15:17and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, we also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those who shall have passed away.
James 2:20But, idle boaster, are you willing to be taught how it is that faith apart from obedience is worthless? Take the case of Abraham our forefather.
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 →