Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.

that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.

Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are these baptized for them?

If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.

But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"