16. For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised.
17. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.
18. Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
19. If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.
20. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.
22. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23. But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ.