8. And last of all--as to the untimely birth--he appeared also to me,
9. for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,
10. and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that [is] towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that [is] with me;
11. whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.
12. And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?
13. and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;
14. and if Christ hath not risen, then void [is] our preaching, and void also your faith,
15. and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;
16. for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,
17. and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;
18. then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;
19. if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.
20. And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,
21. for since through man [is] the death, also through man [is] a rising again of the dead,
22. for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,
23. and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,
24. then--the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power--
25. for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet--
26. the last enemy is done away--death;