¹⁵ More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead.^(A) But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.

²⁴ But God raised him from the dead,^(A) freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.^(B)

¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

²⁰ But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead,^(A) the firstfruits^(B) of those who have fallen asleep.^(C)

⁷ Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,^(A) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”^{(B) 8} Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?^(C) Their condemnation is just!

³⁰ But God raised him from the dead,^{(A) 31} and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.^(B) They are now his witnesses^(C) to our people.

³² “We tell you the good news:^(D) What God promised our ancestors^{(E) 33} he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus.^(F) As it is written in the second Psalm:

³⁹ “We are witnesses^(A) of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross,^{(B) 40} but God raised him from the dead^(C) on the third day and caused him to be seen. ⁴¹ He was not seen by all the people,^(D) but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate^(E) and drank with him after he rose from the dead. ⁴² He commanded us to preach to the people^(F) and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.^(G)

³³ With great power the apostles continued to testify^(A) to the resurrection^(B) of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace^(C) was so powerfully at work in them all