“And now, Christ has risen out of the dead—He became the first-fruits of those sleeping,”— 1 Corinthians 15:20 (LSV)
17and if Christ has not risen, your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins;
18then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ perished;
19if we only have hope in Christ in this life, we are to be most pitied of all men.
20And now, Christ has risen out of the dead—He became the first-fruits of those sleeping,
21for since through man [is] death, also through Man [is] a resurrection of the dead,
22for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all will be made alive,
23and each in his proper order: Christ, a first-fruit, afterward those who are the Christ’s in His coming,