New English Translation

1 Corinthians 15:29-39 New English Translation (NET)

29. Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

30. Why too are we in danger every hour?

31. Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

32. If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

33. Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

34. Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God – I say this to your shame!

35. But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

36. Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

37. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.

38. But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

39. All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.