16. If the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either.
17. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is for nothing; you are still guilty of your sins.
18. And also, those in Christ who have already died are lost.
19. If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone else in the world.
20. But Christ has truly been raised from death—the first one and proof that those who are asleep in death will also be raised.
21. Death comes to everyone because of what one man did. But the rising from death also happens because of one man.
22. In Adam all of us die. In the same way, in Christ all of us will be made alive again.
23. But everyone will be raised to life in the right order. Christ was first to be raised. When Christ comes again, those who belong to him will be raised to life.
24. Then the end will come. Christ will destroy all rulers, authorities, and powers. And he will give the kingdom to God the Father.
25. Christ must rule until God puts all enemies under Christ’s control.