17. and if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are even yet in your sins.
18. Then those also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19. If in this life only we have existence in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.
20. But now Christ is risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of those that slept.
21. For since by a man came death, by a man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22. For as in Adam all die, even so in the Christ shall all be made alive.
23. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward, those that are Christ’s at his coming.
24. Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25. For he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet.
26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27. For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is clear that he is excepted, who did put all things under him.