¹⁶ for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,

^{17 Ref} and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

^{18 Ref} then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

^{19 Ref} if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

^{20 Ref} And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

^{21 Ref} for since through man `is' the death, also through man `is' a rising again of the dead,