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.