1 Corinthians 15:12-34 - Concerning The Resurrection Of The Dead
12 And if Christ is proclaimed that he arose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no rising up of the dead? 13 And if there is no rising up of the dead, neither has Christ risen: 14 And if Christ has not risen, then our proclaiming vain, and also your faith vain. 15 And we are also found false witnesses of God; for we testified for God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not, if therefore the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, neither was Christ raised up: 17 And if Christ was not raised up, your faith is vain; yet are ye in your sins. 18 Then they also having died in Christ perished. 19 If in this life only we have been hoping in Christ, we are more to be compassionated than all men.
20 And now Was Christ raised from the dead, he was the first fruits of those having died. 21 For since by man death, also by man the rising up of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 And each in his own order: the first fruit Christ; then they of Christ in his arrival. 24 Then the end, when he should deliver up the kingdom to God, and the Father; when he should leave unemployed every beginning and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy, death, is left unemployed. 27 For he subjected all things under his feet. And when he said that all things have been subjected, it is manifest that without him having subjected all things to him. 28 And when all things be subjected to him, then also shall the Son himself be subjected to him having made all things subject to him, that God might be all things in all.
29 For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead? 30 And why are we in peril every hour? 31 In the day I die by: your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. 33 Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits. 34 Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.