1st Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 14 Holy Bible
and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
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And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.
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but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also [is] our preaching, and vain also your faith.
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And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
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If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
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and if Christ hath not risen, then void `is' our preaching, and void also your faith,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Vain. You accepted our proclamation (kerugma), yet it would be utterly void if its central testimony was false. The word translated "then" has a sort of ironic force - "after all," or "it seems." The whole argument is at once an argumentum ad hominem and a reductio ad absurdum. Your faith is also vain. For it would be faith in a crucified man, not in the risen Christ.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) If Christ be not risen.--Better, but if Christ be not raised; and so all through this passage.Then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.--The Apostles had preached a risen Christ, their converts had believed in a risen Christ, but now the proposition is, There is no resurrection; therefore Christ is not risen; therefore the preaching and the faith which are based on the delusion that He is risen are both vain and useless. The argument is still purely an appeal to historical evidence supporting an historical fact, and to the consequences involved in denying that fact (see 1Corinthians 15:16).
