1 Corinthians 15:14

American Standard Version (1901)

and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
  • 1 Thess 4:14 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
  • Acts 17:31 : 31 inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
  • Gen 8:8 : 8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 15:15-22
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    15Yea, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.

    16For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:

    17and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

    18Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

    19If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

    20But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.

    21For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead.

    22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

  • 1 Cor 15:11-13
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    91%

    11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

    12Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

    13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither hath Christ been raised:

  • 1 Cor 15:2-5
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    2by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

    3For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

    4and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;

    5and that he appeared to Cephas; then to the twelve;

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

  • 1 Thess 4:13-14
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    13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

  • Rom 8:9-11
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    69%

    9But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

  • Rom 6:8
    68%

    8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

  • Mark 16:6
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    6And he saith unto them, Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid him!

  • Gal 3:4
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    4Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

  • Luke 24:6
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    6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

  • Acts 13:30
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    30But God raised him from the dead:

  • Eph 5:14
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    14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • 1 Cor 15:42-44
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    42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

    43it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

    44it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [body] .

  • Matt 28:6
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    6He is not here; for he is risen, even as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

  • 1 Cor 15:32
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    32If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

  • Acts 17:3
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    3opening and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, [said he], I proclaim unto you, is the Christ.

  • Rom 6:5
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    5For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;

  • Rom 4:24-25
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    24but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

    25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

  • Rom 14:9
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    9For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
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    1For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

  • 1 Cor 15:58
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    58Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 6:14
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    14and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power.

  • Phil 3:11
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    11if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

  • Luke 24:23
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    23and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.