15 More than that, we are shown to be lying about God, because we said that he raised Christ from death — but if it is true that the dead are not raised to life, then he did not raise Christ.
16 For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.
18 It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.
19 If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.
20 But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.
21 For just as death came by means of a man, in the same way the rising from death comes by means of a man.