Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁹ If we are ones having hoped in Christ in this life only, we are more pitiable^[a] than all people.

But Christ Has Been Raised As The Firstfruit of Those Yet To Be Raised

²⁰ But now, Christ has been raised from the dead— the firstfruit^[b] of the ones having fallen-asleep. ²¹ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of dead ones also came through a man. ²² For just as in^[c] Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be given-life^[d], ²³ but each in his own order^[e]: Christ the firstfruit; after-that^[f] the ones of ^[g] Christ at His coming. ²⁴ Then^[h] comes the end— when He hands-over the kingdom to His God and Father, when He^[i] has abolished all^[j] rule and all authority and power. ²⁵ For He^[k] must reign until which time He^[l] has put all the enemies under His feet. ²⁶ Death, the last enemy, is abolished^[m]— ²⁷ for “He^[n] subjected all things under His^[o] feet” [Ps 8:6]. But when He says^[p] that “All things have been subjected”, it is clear that this is except the One^[q] having subjected all things to Him. ²⁸ But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One^[r] having subjected all things to Him, in order that God may be all things in all.