1 Corinthians 15:14
Good News Translation
and if Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe.

New Revised Standard Version
and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain.

Contemporary English Version
And if Christ wasn't raised to life, our message is worthless, and so is your faith.

New American Bible
And if Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain.

1 Corinthians 15:2,17 By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. . . .

Psalm 73:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Isaiah 49:4 And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

Genesis 8:8 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.

Matthew 15:9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

Galatians 2:2 And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain.

James 1:26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Context
The Resurrection of the Dead
13But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen again. 14And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain. 15Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:13
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen again.

1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

1 Corinthians 15:13
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