"And if Christ be not risen, then {is} our preaching vain, and your faith {is} also vain." — 1 Corinthians 15:14

1 Corinthians 15:14 · KJV

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

— 1 Corinthians 15:14

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

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.

1 Corinthians 15 — Context

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

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

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.

For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:17

And if Christ be not raised, your faith {is} vain; ye are yet in your sins.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Acts 17:31

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by {that} man whom he hath ordained; {whereof} he hath given assurance unto all {men}, in that he hath raised him from the dead. {hath given...: or, offered faith}

James 2:20

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Matthew 15:9

But in vain they do worship me, teaching {for} doctrines the commandments of men.

Galatians 2:2

And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. {privately: or, severally}

Isaiah 49:4

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: {yet} surely my judgment {is} with the LORD, and my work with my God. {my work: or, my reward}

Psalms 73:13

Verily I have cleansed my heart {in} vain, and washed my hands in innocency.