¹⁶ For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. ¹⁷ And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; ^(A)you are still in your sins! ¹⁸ Then also those who have ^[a]fallen ^(B)asleep in Christ have perished. ^19 (C)If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

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²⁰ But now ^(D)Christ is risen from the dead, and has become ^(E)the firstfruits of those who have ^[b]fallen asleep. ²¹ For ^(F)since by man came death, ^(G)by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall ^(H)be made alive.

^5 (A)For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that ^(B)our old man was crucified with Him, that ^(C)the body of sin might be ^[a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. ⁷ For ^(D)he who has died has been ^[b]freed from sin. ⁸ Now ^(E)if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that ^(F)Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, ^(G)He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, ^(H)He lives to God.