17. And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
18. Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
20. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24. Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25. For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27. For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is clear that he is excepted, who did put all things under him.
28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.