If Messiah Has Been Raised

12If the Messiah is proclaimed as having 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, then not even Messiah has been raised.

14And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclamation is empty, and your faith is empty.

15Then we are even found to be false witnesses about God, because we testified about God that he raised the Messiah, whom he did not raise if in fact the dead are not raised.

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

17But 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 for this life only, we are more pitiable 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 came through a man.

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

23But each in his own order: Messiah the firstfruits, then those who belong to Messiah at his coming.

24Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he abolishes every rule and every authority and power.

25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

26The last enemy to be abolished is death.

27For he has subjected all things under his feet. But when it says that all things have been subjected, it is clear that this excludes the one who subjected all things to him.

28But when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.