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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- 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 And if Christ be not 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 which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- Jas 2:20 : 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
- Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.
- Gal 2:2 : 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.
- Ps 73:13 : 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
- Isa 49:4 : 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.
- Matt 15:9 : 9 ‹But in vain they do worship me, teaching› [for] ‹doctrines the commandments of men.›
- Acts 17:31 : 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.
- 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
- Gen 8:8 : 8 Also 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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- 1 Cor 15:15-228 verses91%
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.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 ¶ But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
- 1 Cor 15:11-133 verses91%
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:
- 1 Cor 15:2-54 verses73%
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
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29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
- 1 Thess 4:13-142 verses69%
13 ¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- Rom 8:9-113 verses69%
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 ¶ And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
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6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
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4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain.
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6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
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30 But God raised him from the dead:
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14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.
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21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- 1 Cor 15:42-443 verses67%
42 So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
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6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
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35 ¶ But some [man] will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
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32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
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3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
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5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:
- Rom 4:24-252 verses66%
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
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17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
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15 And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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1 ¶ For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
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18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
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21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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58 ¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
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14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
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11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
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23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
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12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.