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

"For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."

"He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

Nevertheless I am sending the brothers in order that my boast about you may not prove vain in this instance; so that, as I kept saying, you may be prepared.

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain.

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain, you are still in your sins.

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

In vain do they worship me, While they teach doctrines that are the commands of men."