16 If the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith doesn't mean anything. Your sins have not been forgiven.
18 Those who have died believing in Christ are also lost.
19 Do we have hope in Christ only for this life? Then people should pity us more than anyone else.
20 But Christ really has been raised from the dead. He is the first of all those who will rise.
21 Death came because of what a man did. Rising from the dead also comes because of what a man did.
22 Because of Adam, all people die. So because of Christ, all will be made alive.