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4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.
6 Thereafter He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the greater part of whom remain until now, although some have fallen asleep.
7 Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8 And last of all, He appeared also to me, as to one of untimely birth.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am 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 toward me has not been void. Rather, I toiled more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
11 Therefore whether it was I or they, thus we preach, and thus you believed.
12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised out from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then also our preaching is void, and your faith is void.
15 Then also we are found false witnesses of God, because we have witnessed concerning God that He raised up Christ, whom He has not raised if then 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 futile; you are still in your sins.
18 Also then those having fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If only in this life we are having hope in Christ, we are more to be pitied than all men.
20 But now Christ has been raised out from the dead, the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep.
21 For since death came by a man, so also by a man has come the resurrection of the dead.