14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
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And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)Having confirmed the truth of our Saviour’s resurrection, the apostle goes on to refute those among the Corinthians who said there would be none: If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead ? 1 Cor. 15:12. It seems from this passage, and the course of the argument, there were some among the Corinthians who thought the resurrect…
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