15:16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
15:17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
15:18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep 1 in Christ have also perished.
1 tn See the note on the word “asleep” in 15:6. This term is also used in v. 20.