11. Whether then it be I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
12. Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither hath Christ been raised:
14. and if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.
16. For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:
17. and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable.
20. But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.
21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
23. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ's, at his coming.