1 Corinthians 15:3-23

3For I also passed on to you first of all what I also received— that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

4that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

5and that He appeared to Kefa, then to the Twelve.

6Then He appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time— most of them are still alive, though some have died.

7Then He appeared to Jacob, then to all the emissaries,

8and last of all, as to one untimely born, He also appeared to me.

9For I am the least of the emissaries, unworthy to be called an emissary because I persecuted God’s community.

10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace toward me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than them all—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

11Whether then it is I or they, so we proclaim, and so you believed.

12Now if Messiah is proclaimed—that He has been raised from the dead—how can some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Messiah has been raised!

14And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is meaningless and your faith also is meaningless.

15Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that He raised up Messiah—whom He did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised.

16For if the dead are not raised, not even Messiah has been raised.

17And if Messiah has not been raised, your faith is futile—you are still in your sins.

18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Messiah have perished.

19If we have hoped in Messiah in this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all people.

20But now Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also has come through a Man.

22For as in Adam all die, so also in Messiah will all be made alive.

23But each in its own order: Messiah the firstfruits; then, at His coming, those who belong to Messiah;