have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,

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

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

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