Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also in vain.

New American Standard Bible

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.

King James Version

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Holman Bible

and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.

International Standard Version

and if the Messiah has not been raised, then our message means nothing and your faith means nothing.

A Conservative Version

And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.

American Standard Version

and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.

Amplified

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain [useless, amounting to nothing], and your faith is also vain [imaginary, unfounded, devoid of value and benefit—not based on truth].

An Understandable Version

And if Christ has not been raised up, then our preaching is for nothing, and your faith is for nothing too.

Anderson New Testament

And if Christ has not been raised, then vain is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

Bible in Basic English

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

Common New Testament

if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and so is your faith.

Daniel Mace New Testament

and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is empty talk, and your faith even meer amusement.

Darby Translation

but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

Godbey New Testament

but if Christ is not risen, then indeed is our preaching vain, and your faith is vain.

Goodspeed New Testament

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

John Wesley New Testament

And if Christ be not raised, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Julia Smith Translation

And if Christ has not risen, then our proclaiming vain, and also your faith vain.

King James 2000

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching [is] in vain, and your faith [is] in vain.

Modern King James verseion

And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is worthless, and your faith is also worthless.

Moffatt New Testament

and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.

Montgomery New Testament

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, and vain also is your faith.

NET Bible

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

New Heart English Bible

If Christ has not been raised, then our proclaiming is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

Noyes New Testament

and if Christ hath not risen, then is our preaching vain, and vain also is your faith.

Sawyer New Testament

and if Christ has not been raised, then both our preaching is vain, and your faith also vain;

The Emphasized Bible

And, if Christ, hath not been raised, void, after all, is our proclamation, void also, our faith, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and if Christ be not risen, vain indeed is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And, if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without meaning, and our faith without meaning also!

Webster

And if Christ is not raised, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Weymouth New Testament

And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.

Williams New Testament

and if Christ was not raised, the message which we preach has nothing in it; there is nothing in our faith either,

World English Bible

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

Worrell New Testament

and, if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, and vain is your faith;

Worsley New Testament

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Youngs Literal Translation

and if Christ hath not risen, then void is our preaching, and void also your faith,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

be
ἐγείρω 
Egeiro 
Usage: 101

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ἐγείρω 
Egeiro 
Usage: 101

ἄρα 
Ara 
therefore , so then , now therefore , then , wherefore , haply , not tr,
Usage: 35

is our
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

κήρυγμα 
Kerugma 
Usage: 6

κενός 
Kenos 
Usage: 15

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

πίστις 
Pistis 
Usage: 221

is also

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

Context Readings

Concerning The Resurrection Of The Dead

13 If there be no rising again of the dead: then is Christ not risen. 14 If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also in vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God. For we have testified of God how that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if it be so that the dead rise not up again.


Cross References

Genesis 8:8

Then sent he forth a dove from him, to wete whether the waters were fallen from off the earth.

Psalm 73:13

and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

Isaiah 49:4

And I said, "I labour in vain and spend my strength for nought, and unprofitably. Howbeit, my cause I commit to the LORD and my travail unto my God."

Matthew 15:9

But in vain they worship me, teaching doctrines which are nothing but men's precepts.'"

Acts 17:31

because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world according to righteousness, by that man, whom he hath appointed, and hath offered faith to all men, after that he had raised him from death."

1 Corinthians 15:2

by the which also ye are saved - I do you to know, after what manner I preached unto you - if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:17

If it be so that Christ rose not, then is your faith in vain, and yet are ye in your sins.

Galatians 2:2

Yea, and I went up by revelation, and commended with them of the gospel, which I preach among the gentiles - but between ourselves with them which were counted chief, lest it should have been thought that I should run, or had run in vain.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him.

James 1:26

If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.

James 2:20

Wilt thou understand, o thou vain man, that faith without deeds is dead?

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