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.
40. And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.
41. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.
42. It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
43. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;