15. If the dead won't be raised to life, we have told lies about God by saying that he raised Christ to life, when he really did not.
16. So if the dead won't be raised to life, Christ wasn't raised to life.
17. Unless Christ was raised to life, your faith is useless, and you are still living in your sins.
18. And those people who died after putting their faith in him are completely lost.
19. If our hope in Christ is good only for this life, we are worse off than anyone else.
20. But Christ has been raised to life! And he makes us certain that others will also be raised to life.
21. Just as we will die because of Adam, we will be raised to life because of Christ.
22. Adam brought death to all of us, and Christ will bring life to all of us.
23. But we must each wait our turn. Christ was the first to be raised to life, and his people will be raised to life when he returns.
24. Then after Christ has destroyed all powers and forces, the end will come, and he will give the kingdom to God the Father.
25. Christ will rule until he puts all his enemies under his power,
26. and the last enemy he destroys will be death.
27. When the Scriptures say that he will put everything under his power, they don't include God. It was God who put everything under the power of Christ.
28. After everything is under the power of God's Son, he will put himself under the power of God, who put everything under his Son's power. Then God will mean everything to everyone.
29. If the dead are not going to be raised to life, what will people do who are being baptized for them? Why are they being baptized for those dead people?