Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

And be ye not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."

and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the scriptures.

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:

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. ---