Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Yes, and we are being proved to have borne false testimony about God; for we testified of God that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead do not rise!

For, if the dead do not rise, then even Christ himself has not been raised,

Again, what good will they be doing who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If it is true that the dead do not rise, why are people baptized on their behalf?

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!

Some one, however, may ask 'How do the dead rise? and in what body will they come?'

At the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, shall be transformed.