16. For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised,
17. and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
18. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all.
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 human being, the resurrection of the dead came also through a human being.