WNT(i)
11 But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.
12 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?
13 If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.
14 And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.
15 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.
16 For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ has not risen;
17 and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
18 It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 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.
20 But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.