16. For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either.
17. But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty; you are still in your sins.
18. And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If we have put our hope in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.
20. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21. For since through a man came death, also through a man came the resurrection of the dead.
22. For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
23. But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s at his coming,
24. then the end, when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power.