26. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death.
27. For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.” (Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.)
28. Then, when all things are under his authority, the Son will put himself under God’s authority, so that God, who gave his Son authority over all things, will be utterly supreme over everything everywhere.
29. If the dead will not be raised, what point is there in people being baptized for those who are dead? Why do it unless the dead will someday rise again?
30. And why should we ourselves risk our lives hour by hour?
31. For I swear, dear brothers and sisters, that I face death daily. This is as certain as my pride in what Christ Jesus our Lord has done in you.
32. And what value was there in fighting wild beasts—those people of Ephesus—if there will be no resurrection from the dead? And if there is no resurrection, “Let’s feast and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
33. Don’t be fooled by those who say such things, for “bad company corrupts good character.”
34. Think carefully about what is right, and stop sinning. For to your shame I say that some of you don’t know God at all.
35. But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?”
36. What a foolish question! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t grow into a plant unless it dies first.
37. And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting.
38. Then God gives it the new body he wants it to have. A different plant grows from each kind of seed.