1 Corinthians 15:16-22

16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised, either;

17and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless and powerless [mere delusion]; you are still in your sins [and under the control and penalty of sin].

18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

19If we who are [abiding] in Christ have hoped only in this life [and this is all there is], then we are of all people most miserable and to be pitied.

20But now [as things really are] Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, [and He became] the first fruits [that is, the first to be resurrected with an incorruptible, immortal body, foreshadowing the resurrection] of those who have fallen asleep [in death].

21For since [it was] by a man that death came [into the world], it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come.

22For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.