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

Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.

Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

For ye yourselves know, brothers, our entrance with you, that it has not become empty.

From which some having swerved have turned aside to empty talk,

Then it says, I will return into my house from where I came out. And when it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

And having seized him, they beat him, and sent him away empty.

He filled those who are hungry with good things, and those who are rich he sent away empty.

And at the season he sent a bondman to the farmers, so that they would give him from the fruit of the vineyard. But having beaten him, the farmers sent him away empty.

And he proceeded to send another bondman. And they, having beaten and shamefully treated, sent him also away empty.

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, become ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in Lord.

But I sent the brothers so that our boast about you would not be empty in this regard. So that, as I said, ye may be prepared,

But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.