¹⁸ And then they that have died in Christ, have perished. [Therefore and they that slept, or died, in Christ, have perished.]

¹⁹ If in this life only we be hoping in Christ, we be more wretches than all men.

²⁰ But now Christ hath risen again from death, the first fruit of dead men; [Now forsooth Christ rose again, from dead, the first fruits of sleeping men;]