Tune: Galilee
(\'Jesus calls us o\'er the tumult\')
1 Corinthians 15 v.12-20
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If Christ be preached, that He has rose
How do some of you suppose
That there is no resurrection
For us now, no, not for one?
But if no resurrection be
Christ is not risen, see
If He be not risen, preaching
And faith is vain, every thing
And preachers do lie if they say
Christ is arisen today
If God has not from the dead raised
Christ, He still dead, and not praised
If He is not raised, then faith be
All vain and all contrary
And we are yet in our sins for
Then there no forgiveness sure
If we have in this life only
Hope in Christ, pitiably
We be, but now truth, He risen
Lord and Saviour of all men (mankind)
He the first-fruits of them that died
Sleeping in Christ they reside
Till comes resurrection morn when
Eternal life lasting then