6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
7. After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8. Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me.
9. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God [that is] with me.
11. Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
12. But if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
13. If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised.
14. And if Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith.
15. Then we are also false witnesses to God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if in fact the dead are not raised.
16. For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised,
17. and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
18. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all.
20. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21. For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead came also through a human being.