¹⁴ And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

¹⁷ And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

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

² And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

³¹ Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

⁹ But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

² By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

⁴ Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

¹³ Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.