...risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching! vain, and your faith is also ' vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that IIP raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16 For if the dead rise...

...remarkably strong, and pertinent to our purpose: "If," says he, " Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are...that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." Would any man in his senses have written thus, if the resurrection of...

...fidelity as a witness. " But if there be no resurrection from the dead, then is Christ not risen.—Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we...that he raised up Christ,' whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." Where, we ask, would have been the mighty charm of this argument, if...

...fidelity as a witness. "But if there be no resurrection from the dead, then is Christ not risen.—Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we...that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." Where, we ask, would have been the mighty charm of this argument, if...

...their hopes, and all their character. " If Christ be not risen," says Paul, " then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are...witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he hath raised up Christ." Thus does this apostle pledge his whole cause, his character as an honest man,...

...11 they, so we preach, and so ye believed. Now if Christ be preacned 12 that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection...of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, 13 then is Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching 14 vain, and...

...arch of the christian faith : so that, as the apostle Paul strongly and unanswerably reasons, " if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen ; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and our faith is also vain." Yea, saith the apostle, (as if he had said, and that...

...proves that with the doctrine of the resurrection, Christianity itself must stand or fall : "if there is no resurrection of the dead, then is 'Christ not risen ; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preach<ing vain, and your faith also is vain." Having thus substantiated the general fact, he enters...

...and our faith and hope were but vain and delusory. " If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are...that he raised up Christ ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not : for if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised ; and if Christ...

...then is Christ not raised ; and if Christ be not raised, our preaching is vain, and your faith also is vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God...that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that dead are not raised : for if dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised; and if Christ...