Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

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

Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.