1 Corinthians 15:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

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  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.
  • 1 Thess 4:14 : 14 For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Acts 17:31 : 31 Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
  • Gen 8:8 : 8 And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 15:15-22
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    15 Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

    16 For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

    17 And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

    18 And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

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

    20 But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

    21 For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

    22 For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

  • 1 Cor 15:11-13
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    91%

    11 If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

    12 Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

    13 But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead:

  • 1 Cor 15:2-5
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    2 By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

    3 For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

    4 And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

    5 And he was seen by Cephas; then by the twelve;

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29 Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?

  • 1 Thess 4:13-14
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    69%

    13 But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

    14 For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

  • Rom 8:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

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

    11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

  • Rom 6:8
    68%

    8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

  • Mark 16:6
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    6 And he said to them, Do not be troubled: you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been put to death on the cross; he has come back from the dead; he is not here: see, the place where they put him!

  • Gal 3:4
    68%

    4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

  • Luke 24:6
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    6 He is not here, he has come back to life: have in mind what he said to you when he was still in Galilee, saying,

  • Acts 13:30
    67%

    30 But God gave him back from the dead:

  • Eph 5:14
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    14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14 Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21 Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • 1 Cor 15:42-44
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    42 So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

    43 It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

    44 It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

  • Matt 28:6
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    6 He is not here, for he has come to life again, even as he said. Come, see the Lord's resting-place.

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35 But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

  • 1 Cor 15:32
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    32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

  • Acts 17:3
    66%

    3 Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.

  • Rom 6:5
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    5 For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

  • Rom 4:24-25
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    24 But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

    25 Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

  • Rom 14:9
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    9 And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17 Even so faith without works is dead.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
    66%

    15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
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    1 For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18 Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

  • 1 Cor 15:58
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    58 For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 6:14
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    14 And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

  • Phil 3:11
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    11 If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.

  • Luke 24:23
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    23 And it was not there; then they came saying that they had seen a vision of angels who said that he was living.

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