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If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
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The Keystone of Christianity
Commentators unanimously describe Christ's resurrection as the absolute foundation of Christianity. Charles Spurgeon calls it the "keystone of the arch," explaining that if it is removed, "the whole tumbles down." Without the historical reality of the resurrection, the apostles' preaching is empty, and Christian faith has nothing to stand on, rendering the entire system a collapse.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain. Another consequence which must follow if it is held that there was no resurrection…
Vain (κενον). Inanis, Vulgate. Old word, empty. Both Paul's preaching and their faith are empty if Christ has not been rais…
19th Century
Anglican
If Christ be not risen.—Better, but if Christ is not raised; and so all through this passage.
Then is our preaching vai…
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Baptist
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I…
Paul now presents his major proposition. Some at Corinth had argued that there was no resurrection of the dead. He replies that this is absolutely …
16th Century
Protestant
Then is our preaching vain — not simply as having some mixture of falsehood, but as being altogether an empty fallacy. For what remains if…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if Christ be not risen If this is a truth, and must be taken as granted, as it must be, if there is no resurrect…
Having shown that Christ was risen, the apostle answers those who said there would be no resurrection. There would have been no justification or sa…
13th Century
Catholic
Having built up faith in the resurrection of Christ, the Apostle now proves the future resurrection of the dead by means of Christ's resurrection. …
