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 15:17If 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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