American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 15:29-37 American Standard Version (ASV)

29. Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

30. Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

31. I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

32. If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

33. Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

34. Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

35. But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

36. Thou foolish one, that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened except it die:

37. and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;