1 Corinthians 15:17

14and if Christ has not risen, then our preaching [is] void, and your faith [is] also void,

15and we are also found [to be] false witnesses of God, because we testified of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

16for if dead persons do not rise, neither has Christ risen,

17and if Christ has not risen, your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins;

18then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ perished;

19if we only have hope in Christ in this life, we are to be most pitied of all men.

20And now, Christ has risen out of the dead—He became the first-fruits of those sleeping,