17 and if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are even yet in your sins.
18 Then those also who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have existence in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.
20 But now Christ is risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of those that slept.
21 For since by a man came death, by a man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in the Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward, those that are Christ’s at his coming.