¹⁶ For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

^{17 Ref} And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

^{18 Ref} And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

^{19 Ref} If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.

^{20 Ref} But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

^{21 Ref} For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.