Know ye not, that they who run in the race, all run, but one receiveth the prize? so run that ye may obtain.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

But if Christ is preached, that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified from God, that he raised up Christ, whom he did not raise, if the dead rise not.

For if the dead rise not, neither is Christ raised:

Else what shall they do, who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?

I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.