Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

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

For what shall they do being immersed for the dead, if in fine the dead rise not? and why are they immersed for the dead?

If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.