1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
KJV
εἰ δὲ Χριστὸς οὐκ ἐγήγερται, κενὸν ἄρα καὶ τὸ κήρυγμα ἡμῶν, κενὴ καὶ ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν·
Greek NT
Si autem Christus non resurrexit, inanis est ergo prædicatio nostra, inanis est et fides vestra :
Vulgate
and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
ASV
And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
κήρυγμα
kerugma
noun · 8×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κενός
kenos
adjective · 18×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
ἄρα
ara
particle · 36×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ἄρα | WH/Treg/RP: ἄρα | NIV: + καὶ
- ἄρα — SBLGNT
- ἄρα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
- + καὶ — Reader's GNT (NA27)
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notable
SBLGNT: κενὴ | WH/Treg/NIV: κενὴ | RP: + δὲ
- κενὴ — SBLGNT
- κενὴ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + δὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ὑμῶν | Treg/NIV/RP: ὑμῶν | WH: ἡμῶν
- ὑμῶν — SBLGNT
- ὑμῶν — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἡμῶν — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§991Belief in the resurrection of the dead has been an essential element of the Christian faith from its beginnings. "The confidence of Christians is the resurrection of the dead; believing this we live."536 How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, …
The necessity of His Resurrection The time of the Resurrection Its order Its cause Article 1. Whether it was necessary for Christ to rise again? Objection 1. It would seem that it was not necessary for Christ to rise again. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iv): "Resurrection is the rising again of an animate being, which was disintegrated and fallen." But Christ did not fall b…
Christ rose bodily from the dead on the third day, and the empty tomb is the proof that His body did not see corruption. He appeared to His disciples with the wounds still visible — Thomas placed his hand in the nail marks. If Christ is not risen, our faith is vain; but He is risen, and His resurrection is the pledge of our own. Cyril lists the witnesses: the women, the apostle…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:2 — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
- 1Cor 15:17 — And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
- 1Cor 15:17 — And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
- 1Thess 4:14 — For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- Acts 17:31 — 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
- Gal 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 va
- Gal 2:21 — I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
- Isa 49:4 — 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.
- Jas 2:20 — But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
- John 16:10 — Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
- Matt 15:9 — But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
- Ps 127:1 — Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Rom 10:9 — That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.