12: Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13: But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

14: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

15: Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

16: For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

17: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

18: Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

19: If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

20: But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.