Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.

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

What, did the gospel take its rise from you? or was it communicated to you alone?

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

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

If 'there is no such thing as a resurrection from the dead,' then even Christ did not rise;

and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

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

If it be so that Christ rose not, then is your faith in vain, and yet are ye in your sins.

But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.

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

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

But some one will say, 'How do the dead rise?

it is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual body. there is an animal body, and there is a spiritual body.

Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed ??52 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet-call. The trumpet will sound, the dead will rise imperishable, and we shall be changed.

and that in a moment, and in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall rise incorruptible: And we shall be changed.