I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For since the world, in God's wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the 'folly' of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!

If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.

What! did God's Message to the world originate with you? or did it find its way to none but you?

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

But, if there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then even Christ has not been raised;

Yes, and we are being proved to have borne false testimony about God; for we testified of God that he raised the Christ, whom he did not raise, if, indeed, the dead do not rise!

For, if the dead do not rise, then even Christ himself has not been raised,

But, in truth, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are at rest.

For, since through a man there is death, so, too, through a man there is a resurrection of the dead.

Again, what good will they be doing who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If it is true that the dead do not rise, why are people baptized on their behalf?

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then-'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die'!

Some one, however, may ask 'How do the dead rise? and in what body will they come?'

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. Sown a mortal body, it rises immortal; sown disfigured, it rises beautiful;

At the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, shall be transformed.