¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless.

¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins.

¹⁴ For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.

²⁰ How foolish! Can’t you see that faith without good deeds is useless?

³¹ For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.”

² I went there because God revealed to me that I should go. While I was there I met privately with those considered to be leaders of the church and shared with them the message I had been preaching to the Gentiles. I wanted to make sure that we were in agreement, for fear that all my efforts had been wasted and I was running the race for nothing.

² It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.^[a]

²⁶ If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.