for I did not think it meet to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

Ye are now full, ye are now rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord:

and did all eat the same spiritual food;

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

Did the word of God come out first from you? or did it come to you only?

Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead, how say some among you, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

for if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses concerning God, for we have testified of God, that He raised up Christ; whom He did not raise up, if indeed the dead do not rise.

For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised:

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and is become the first-fruits of them that slept:

for as by man came death, by man cometh also the resurrection of the dead.

Besides, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why then are they baptized for the dead?

If, to speak as a man, I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage have I, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. ---

But some will say, How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?

So also will be the resurrection of the dead. Our body is sown in corruption, it is raised incorruptible: it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory:

in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet (for the trumpet shall sound) and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed: