29. Otherwise, what will people accomplish by having themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they having themselves baptized for them?
30. Moreover, why are we endangering ourselves all the time?
31. Every day I face death; I swear it by the pride in you [brothers] that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32. If at Ephesus I fought with beasts, so to speak, what benefit was it to me? If the dead are not raised:“Let us eat and drink,for tomorrow we die.”
33. Do not be led astray:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
34. Become sober as you ought and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God; I say this to your shame.
35. But someone may say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come back?”
36. You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies.
37. And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind;
38. but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body.
39. Not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for human beings, another kind of flesh for animals, another kind of flesh for birds, and another for fish.