Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

So If Christ Was Raised, Why Do Some of You Say There Is No Resurrection?

¹² But if Christ is being proclaimed^[a] that He has been raised from the dead, how is it some are saying among you that there is no resurrection of dead^[b] ones?

If The Dead Are Not Raised, Christ Was Not Raised, And Your Faith Is Futile

¹³ Now if there is no resurrection of dead ones, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is also empty; your faith is also empty; ¹⁵ and we are even found to be false-witnesses of ^[c] God, because we testified against^[d] God that He did raise Christ— Whom He did not raise if-indeed then dead ones are not raised. ¹⁶ For if dead ones are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile. You are still in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also the ones having fallen-asleep in Christ perished^[e]. ¹⁹ If we are ones having hoped in Christ in this life only, we are more pitiable^[f] than all people.

But Christ Has Been Raised As The Firstfruit of Those Yet To Be Raised

²⁰ But now, Christ has been raised from the dead— the firstfruit^[g] of the ones having fallen-asleep.