1 Corinthians 15:18 YLT

¹⁶  for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,

¹⁷  and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

¹⁸  then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

¹⁹  if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

²⁰  And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,