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

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

²³ That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

²³ But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.

⁵ And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

⁶ Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping;