015:017 and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing-- you are still in your sins. 015:018 It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 015:019 If in this present life we have a *hope* resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world. 015:020 But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep. 015:021 For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead. 015:022 For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again. 015:023 But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return. 015:024 Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power. 015:025 For He must continue King until He shall have put all His enemies under His feet. 015:026 The last enemy that is to be overthrown is Death; 015:027 for He will have put all things in subjection under His feet. And when He shall have declared that "All things are in subjection," it will be with the manifest exception of Him who has reduced them all to subjection to Him. 015:028 But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all. 015:029 Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are these baptized for them? 015:030 Why also do we Apostles expose ourselves to danger every hour? 015:031 I protest, brethren, as surely as I glory over you-- which I may justly do in Christ Jesus our Lord--that I die day by day. 015:032 If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die. 015:033 Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals." 015:034 Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame. 015:035 But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?" 015:036 Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies; 015:037 and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be) or of something else, and God gives it a body as He has seen fit,