¹⁶ For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

^{17 Ref} And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

^{18 Ref} Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

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

^{20 Ref} But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

^{21 Ref} For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.