13. For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen.
14. And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is useless, and your faith is also useless.
15. Then, too, we would be found to be false witnesses of God, because we would have given testimony against God, saying that he had raised up Christ, when he had not raised him up, if, indeed, the dead do not rise again.
16. For if the dead do not rise again, then neither has Christ risen again.
17. But if Christ has not risen, then your faith is vain; for you would still be in your sins.
18. Then, too, those who have fallen asleep in Christ would have perished.
19. If we have hope in Christ for this life only, then we are more miserable than all men.
20. But now Christ has risen again from the dead, as the first-fruits of those who sleep.
21. For certainly, death came through a man. And so, the resurrection of the dead came through a man
22. And just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be brought to life,
23. but each one in his proper order: Christ, as the first-fruits, and next, those who are of Christ, who have believed in his advent.
24. Afterwards is the end, when he will have handed over the kingdom to God the Father, when he will have emptied all principality, and authority, and power.