1 Corinthians 15:14

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

1770 John Worsley NT

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 Christ is not risen.

15Yea, and we are found false witnesses concerning God, for we have testified of God, that He raised up Christ; whom He did not raise up, if indeed the dead do not rise.

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Cross References

Acts 17:31Because He hath fixed a day, in which He will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom He hath appointed thereto; having given assurance of it to all men, 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 sleep in Jesus, will God bring with Him.

James 2:20But desirest thou to 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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