15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ; whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.
16. For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.
17. And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain, for you are yet in your sins.
18. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ, are perished.
19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20. But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:
21. For by a man came death, and by a man the resurrection of the dead.
22. And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.
23. But every one in his own order: the firstfruits Christ, then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.
24. Afterwards the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father, when he shall have brought to nought all principality, and power, and virtue.
25. For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.
26. And the enemy death shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith,