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1 Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,
2 and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.
3 For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,
4 that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised from the dead, as the Scriptures foretold,
5 and that he was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve.
6 After that he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have fallen asleep.
7 Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles,
8 and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time.
9 For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.
10 But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.
11 But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
12 Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?
13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ was not raised,
14 and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,
15 and we are found guilty of misrepresenting God, for we have testified that he raised Christ, when he did not do it, if it is true that the dead are never raised.
16 For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised;
17 and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins.
18 Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished.
19 If we have centered our hopes on Christ in this life, and that is all, we are the most pitiable people in the world.
20 But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead.
22 For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.
23 But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.
24 After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,
25 for he must retain the kingdom until he puts all his enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy to be overthrown will be death,
27 for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him.
28 And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone.