And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.

If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.

For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.

For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.

What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?

And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead:

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.