015:011 But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.
015:012 But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?
015:013 If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead,
then Christ Himself has not risen to life.
015:014 And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach
is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.
015:015 Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false witness about God, because we have testified that God raised Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none of the dead are raised.
015:016 For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ
has not risen;
015:017 and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing—
you are still in your sins.
015:018 It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in
Christ have perished.
015:019 If in this present life we have a *hope* resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world.
015:020 But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead,
being the first to do so of those who are asleep.