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.
26. The last enemy that is annulled is death.
27. For he has put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he says that all things are put in subjection, it is evident that it is except him who put all things in subjection to him.
28. But when all things shall have been brought into subjection to him, then the Son also himself shall be placed in subjection to him who put all things in subjection to him, that God may be all in all.)
29. Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?