...is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? "If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ...has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. '5We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ —...

...is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ...has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. (1 Cor 15:12-14) Paul moves on to speak of the kind of transformation that is to come: the clothing...

...least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. . . . If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ...raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and our faith has been in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:3-9, 13 Second Corinthians There are several phrases in...

...Paul grants these resurrection-deniers their point and then follows out the consequences. If indeed there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised and Christian preaching has been based on a lie (vv. 12-19). Then Paul shifts to the positive, asserting...

...preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? "But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;* 14if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15We are...

...that followed the death of Jesus — his Resurrection. Without the Resurrection, Saint Paul tells us, "then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. ... If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied" (1 Corinthians...

...Christian faith (I Cor. 15:14-19). Believers, too, will be resurrected (I Thess. 4:16; I Cor. 15:42-57). If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. But, Christ...

...dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If the dead are not raised, the nature of the relationship between your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.39 Paul went on to make the point that if it is...

...James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to someone untimely born, he appeared also to me. . . . If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ...vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, for we testified of God that he raised Christ — whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead...

...sins. Look at what the apostle Paul expresses about the importance of the resurrection to our faith. "If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ...been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless, and you are still under condemnation for your sins. In that case, all who have...