17. but if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18. Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.
20. (But now Christ is raised from among the dead, first-fruits of those fallen asleep.
21. For since by man came death, by man also resurrection of those that are dead.