Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 15:16-19

"For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised: and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable." — 1 Corinthians 15:16-19 (ASV)

For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable.

To have been quickened into a life that gives great pain and sorrow would be a miserable thing if this were not compensated by the hope of glory that this new life has brought to us. A man who has always been poor can bear his poverty; but let him taste wealth and luxury for a while, and then go back to destitution, and how keen is the pang he feels. And let a man be quickened to know God, and to rejoice in the new life, and then be told that there is no hereafter, he is, indeed, "of all men most miserable."