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

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17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; (A)you are still in your sins!

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14 For (A)if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him (B)those who [a]sleep in Jesus.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 Or through Jesus sleep

And in vain they worship Me,
(A)Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

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20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [a]dead?

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  1. James 2:20 NU useless

And I went up [a]by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but (A)privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means (B)I might run, or had run, in vain.

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  1. Galatians 2:2 because of

31 because He has appointed a day on which (A)He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by (B)raising Him from the dead.”

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(A)by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless (B)you believed in vain.

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(A)Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my [a]just reward is with the Lord,
And my [b]work with my God.’ ”

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  1. Isaiah 49:4 justice
  2. Isaiah 49:4 recompense

26 If anyone [a]among you thinks he is religious, and (A)does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.

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  1. James 1:26 NU omits among you

13 Surely I have [a]cleansed my heart in (A)vain,
And washed my hands in innocence.

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  1. Psalm 73:13 kept my heart pure in vain

He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

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