15. And indeed we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified concerning God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not, if in truth the dead rise not.
16. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17. And if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18. Then they also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20. But now is Christ raised from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.
21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23. But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24. Then cometh 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, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted who did put all things under him.
28. And when all things shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
29. Else what will they do, who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?