1 Corinthians 15:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, {G1161} your faith also is vain.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ δὲ Χριστὸς οὐκ ἐγήγερται, κενὸν ἄρα τὸ κήρυγμα ἡμῶν, κενὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

Ei de Christos ouk egēgertai, kenon ara to kērygma hēmōn, kenē de kai hē pistis hymōn

Grammar Details

*Ei*: conditional conjunction - if
*de*: postpositive conjunction - and/also
*Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ
*ouk egēgertai*: perfect passive indicative, 3rd person singular with negation - has not been raised
*kenon*: adjective, nominative, neuter, singular - empty/vain
*ara*: inferential particle - then/consequently
*to kērygma*: nominative, neuter, singular - the preaching
*hēmōn*: genitive, 1st person plural - of us
*kenē*: adjective, nominative, feminine, singular - empty/vain
*kai*: conjunction - also
*hē pistis*: nominative, feminine, singular - the faith
*hymōn*: genitive, 2nd person plural - of you

Word Meanings

*Ei*: if/since
*de*: but/and/now
*Christos*: Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
*ouk egēgertai*: has not been raised/has not risen
*kenon*: empty/void/useless/vain
*ara*: then/consequently/therefore
*kērygma*: preaching/proclamation/message
*kenē*: empty/void/useless/vain
*kai*: also/even/too
*pistis*: faith/belief/trust

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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 {G1722} {G5213} 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 {G3056} I preached unto you, except {G3361} 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;

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