As Paul draws his teaching about the resurrection to a close, he does so in a spirit of appropriate confidence, the kind of confidence produced by heartfelt belief in the resurrection of the Christian. We will examine Paul’s confident conclusion under the following headings:

1. A Confident Expectation (vv. 50–53)

2. A Confident Exaltation (vv. 54–57)

3. A Confident Exhortation (v. 58)