Rise not, Christ is not raised; and if Christ be not raised,
Your faith is vain, and ye are in your sins.
And also they which are asleep in Christ
Are perish’d. If in this sad life alone
We have a hope in Christ, we are of all
Most miserable men. But now the Lord
Is risen from the dead, and has become
First fruits of them that slept. For since by man
Came death, by man has also come
The resurrection of the dead. For as