And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

基督若沒有復活，你們的信便是徒然，你們仍在罪裡。就是在基督裡睡了的人，也滅亡了。我們若靠基督只在今生有指望，就算比眾人更可憐！但基督已經從死裡復活，成為睡了之人初熟的果子。死既是因一人而來，死人復活也是因一人而來。

哥林多前書1Cor.15:17-21