014:040 Let all things be done decently and in order. 015:001 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, 015:002 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. 015:003 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 015:004 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 015:005 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 015:006 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. 015:007 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 015:008 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. 015:009 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. 015:010 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 015:011 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. 015:012 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 015:013 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised. 015:014 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain. 015:015 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised. 015:016 For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised. 015:017 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. 015:018 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 015:019 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. 015:020 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. 015:021 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. 015:022 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 015:023 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming. 015:024 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. 015:025 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 015:026 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. 015:027 For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet."{Psalm