Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

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

and that he was buried, and that he rose on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Else what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? and why are they baptized for them?

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.