KJV King James Version
And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.
WEB World English Bible
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
ASV American Standard Version
and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and if Christ hath not risen, then void is our preaching, and void also your faith,
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 15
11 Therefore whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
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, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
εἰG1487 · eiifδὲG1161 · dethenΧριστὸςG5547 · ChristosChristοὐκG3756 · ounoἐγήγερται,G1453 · egeirōto ariseκενὸνG2756 · kenosemptyἄραG686 · arathereforeτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoκήρυγμαG2782 · kērugmapreachingἡμῶν,G3165 · memeκενὴG2756 · kenosemptyκαὶG2532 · kaiandἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoπίστιςG4102 · pistisfaithὑμῶν.G4771 · suyou
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 15:17And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.Acts 17:31Because 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.Matthew 15:9But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.James 2:20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?1 Corinthians 15:2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.Galatians 2:2And 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.Psalm 73:13Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocency.Isaiah 49:4Then 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.Genesis 8:8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain.
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