¹⁴ And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

²⁰ Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

¹⁴ For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

¹⁷ And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

²⁶ If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

² And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.

² By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

³¹ Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

⁹ But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

⁴ And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

¹³ As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

⁸ And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;