<p>15:14 <i>And if Christ has not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain</i>- He preached, and <i>so </i>the Corinthians believed (1 Cor. 15:11); his preaching and their faith are so closely related, because there is a degree to which the belief and salvation of others has been placed in our hands (cp. Mk. 2:5). Because Christ rose, we have not believed and preached &quot;in vain&quot; (1 Cor. 15:14). Because He rose, therefore &quot;awake to righteousness and sin not&quot; (15:34)- for He is our representative. We labour for Him because our faith in His resurrection is not &ldquo;in vain&quot;. Our faith in His resurrection is not in vain (:2,14), and our labour is therefore not in vain (:58) because it is motivated by His rising again. The grace of being able to believe in the resurrection of Jesus meant that Paul &quot;laboured abundantly&quot; (:10). And he can therefore bid us follow his example- of labouring abundantly motivated by the same belief that the Lord rose (:58).</p>