Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,