17. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.
18. It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.
19. If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.
20. But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.