If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
Parallel translations
- KJV And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
- BSB And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.
- NKJV And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.
- NASB and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, your faith also is in vain.
- NLT And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless.
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Cross-references · 11
- 1 Cor 15:17If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
- 1 Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
- Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
- Matt 15:9And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”
- Jas 2:20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
- 1 Cor 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.
- Isa 49:4But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
- Gal 2:2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
- Ps 73:13Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
- Gen 8:8He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
- Jas 1:26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
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