¹⁵ Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because ^(A)we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise.

^24 (A)whom God raised up, having ^[a]loosed the ^[b]pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, ^(A)then Christ is not risen.

The Last Enemy Destroyed

²⁰ But now ^(A)Christ is risen from the dead, and has become ^(B)the firstfruits of those who have ^[a]fallen asleep.

⁷ For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? ⁸ And why not say, ^(A)“Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their ^[a]condemnation is just.

^30 (A)But God raised Him from the dead. ^31 (B)He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people. ³² And we declare to you glad tidings—^(C)that promise which was made to the fathers. ³³ God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm:

³⁹ And we are ^(A)witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom ^[a]they ^(B)killed by hanging on a tree. ⁴⁰ Him ^(C)God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, ^41 (D)not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us ^(E)who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. ⁴² And ^(F)He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify ^(G)that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge ^(H)of the living and the dead.

³³ And with ^(A)great power the apostles gave ^(B)witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And ^(C)great grace was upon them all.