1 Corinthians 15:29-38 (Epistle)
- 29
- Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?
- 30
- And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?
- 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.
- 38
- But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.