1 Corinthians 15:14

WEB

¹⁴If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.

KJV

¹⁴And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

BSB

¹⁴And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.

FBV

¹⁴And if Christ isn't raised, then our message we shared with you is pointless, and your trust in God is pointless too.

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 15:17

¹⁷If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

³¹because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Matthew 15:9

⁹And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

Galatians 2:2

²I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

James 2:20

²⁰But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Isaiah 49:4

⁴But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward with my God.”

1 Corinthians 15:2

²by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Psalms 73:13

¹³Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Genesis 8:8

⁸He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,