15. And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised.
16. For if those that are dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised;
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.
22. For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.
23. But each in his own rank: the first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.
24. Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him who is God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.
25. For he must reign until he put all enemies under his feet.