'Dead' in the Bible

Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.

But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?

If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.

Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false witness about God, because we have testified that God raised Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none of the dead are raised.

For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ has not risen;

But, in reality, Christ *has* risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.

For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.

Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are these baptized for them?

If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.

But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incapable of decay, and *we* shall be changed.