1 Corinthians 15:14

If Christ is not raised, apostolic preaching and the Corinthians' faith are empty. It matters because everything in Christianity rests on the resurrection.

Cross-references · 11

• 1 Cor 15:17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
• 1 Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
• Acts 17:31Because 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.
• Matt 15:9But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• Jas 2:20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
• 1 Cor 15:2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
• Isa 49:4Then 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.
• Gal 2:2And 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 73:13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
• Gen 8:8Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
• Jas 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

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