13. If no one will ever be raised from death, then Christ was not raised from death.
14. And if Christ was not raised, then our preaching is worth nothing. And your faith is worth nothing.
15. And also, we will be guilty of lying about God. Because we have preached about him by saying that he raised Christ from death. And if people are not raised from death, then God never raised Christ from death.
16. If the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either.
17. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is for nothing; you are still guilty of your sins.
18. And also, those in Christ who have already died are lost.
19. If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone else in the world.
20. But Christ has truly been raised from death—the first one and proof that those who are asleep in death will also be raised.
21. Death comes to everyone because of what one man did. But the rising from death also happens because of one man.