1 Corinthians 15:14

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And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:17 : 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
  • 1 Thess 4:14 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running– or had not run– in vain.
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 I concluded,“Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I thought,“I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the LORD will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
  • Acts 17:31 : 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.
  • Gen 8:8 : 8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 15:15-22
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    15Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.

    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

    17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.

    18Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

    19For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.

    20But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

    21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

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

  • 1 Cor 15:11-13
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    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

    12No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

    13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • 1 Cor 15:2-5
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    2and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.

    3For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

    4and that he was buried, and that he was 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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    29Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

  • 1 Thess 4:13-14
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    13The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

  • Rom 8:9-11
    3 verses
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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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

    11Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

  • Rom 6:8
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    8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

  • Mark 16:6
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    6But he said to them,“Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.

  • Gal 3:4
    68%

    4Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

  • Luke 24:6
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    6He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,

  • Acts 13:30
    67%

    30But God raised him from the dead,

  • Eph 5:14
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    14For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

  • 1 Cor 15:42-44
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    42It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

    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 has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

  • 1 Cor 15:32
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    32If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

  • Acts 17:3
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    3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, saying,“This Jesus I am proclaiming to 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 will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

  • Rom 4:24-25
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    24but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

    25He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

  • Rom 14:9
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    9For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
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    1Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you– it has not proven to be purposeless.

  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

  • 1 Cor 15:58
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    58So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 6:14
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    14Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

  • Phil 3:11
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    11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

  • Luke 24:23
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    23and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.