¹²Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³But if there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised either. ¹⁴But if Christ has not been raised, then^b our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain. ¹⁵And also we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised. ¹⁶For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either. ¹⁷But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty; you are still in your sins. ¹⁸And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹If we have put our hope^c in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.

²⁰But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹For since through a man came death, also through a man came the resurrection of the dead. ²²For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. ²³But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s at his coming,

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1 Corinthians 15:19–20: If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Footnotes

bSome manuscripts have “then both”
cLiterally “we are having put our hope”