through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins!

And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing; therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labor before my God.

And he sent a dove after it, to see if the water had ceased from off the earth.

And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"

because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all, by raising Him from the dead."

And I went up by revelation, and I set before them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those with influence, lest somehow I might run, or had run, for nothing.

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceiving his heart, the religion of this [man] is useless.

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