If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

More than that, we are detected in bearing false witness against God; because we testified of God that he raised Christ from the dead, whom he did not raise, if indeed the dead rise not.

Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are really not raised, why are they baptized for them?

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.