31. I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
32. If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
33. Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”
34. Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
35. But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”
36. Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.
37. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain.