17. and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;
18. then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;
19. if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.
20. And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,
21. for since through man [is] the death, also through man [is] a rising again of the dead,
22. for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,
23. and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,
24. then--the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power--
25. for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet--
26. the last enemy is done away--death;
27. for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, [it is] evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,