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29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?
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Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
30 Why am I in peril every hour?
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And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
31 I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
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I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
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If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
33 Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."
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Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
34 Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
35 But some one will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
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But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
36 You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
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How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37 And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
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When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
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But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
39 For not all flesh is alike, but there is one kind for men, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
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Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.
40 There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
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There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is 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.
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The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
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