I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius--

I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household also: but I do not think that I baptized any one else.

Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.

Why, who gives you your superiority, my brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? And if you really did receive it, why boast as if this were not so?

And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.

But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.

Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false witness about God, because we have testified that God raised Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none of the dead are raised.

For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ has not risen;

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.

For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.

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?"

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incapable of decay, and *we* shall be changed.