11. But it doesn't matter if I preached or if they preached. All of you believed the message just the same.
12. If we preach that Christ was raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?
13. If they won't be raised to life, Christ himself wasn't raised to life.
14. And if Christ wasn't raised to life, our message is worthless, and so is your faith.
15. If the dead won't be raised to life, we have told lies about God by saying that he raised Christ to life, when he really did not.
16. So if the dead won't be raised to life, Christ wasn't raised to life.
17. Unless Christ was raised to life, your faith is useless, and you are still living in your sins.
18. And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost.
19. If our hope in Christ is good only for this life, we are worse off than anyone else.
20. But Christ has been raised to life! And he makes us certain that others will also be raised to life.
21. Just as we will die because of Adam, we will be raised to life because of Christ.
22. Adam brought death to all of us, and Christ will bring life to all of us.