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

And my words, and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom: but in showing of the spirit and of power,

which things also we speak - not in the cunning words of man's wisdom, but with the cunning words of the holy ghost, making spiritual comparisons of spiritual things.

Yet had I rather, in the congregation, to speak five words with my mind to the information of others, rather than ten thousand words with the tongue.

And again, "God knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they be vain."

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.

But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

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

Therefore, my dear brethren, be ye steadfast and unmovable, always rich in the works of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know how that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.