Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 15:18-19

"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 15:18-19 (ASV)

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.

That is to say, if our hope for the future is all a lie, we have been dreadfully deceived; and moreover, if we could lose a hope as brilliant as it has been to us, there would fall upon us a sense of loss so great that no one in the world could be as wretched as we would be.

Besides, the apostles, being always in jeopardy of their lives, if they were suffering poverty, and persecution, and the fear of death by martyrdom, all for a lie, were indeed of all men the most deluded and the most miserable.

But the Corinthians would not admit that, neither will we.