¹⁴ If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

²⁰ But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

¹⁷ If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

²⁶ If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

² I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

² by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

³¹ because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

⁹ And in vain do they worship me, Teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

⁴ But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.

¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,

⁸ He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,