And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Your faith is also vain (1 Corinthians 15:11). The Greek for "vain" here is empty, unreal х kenon (G2756)]; in 1 Corinthians 15:17 х mataia (G3152)], it is without use, frustrated. The principal argument of the first preachers of Christianity was, that God had raised Christ from the dead (Acts 1:22; Acts 2:32; Acts 4:10; Acts 4:33; Acts 13:37; Romans 1:4). If this were false, the faith built on it must be false too.