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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?

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And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?

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I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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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!"

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Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits."

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Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

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But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?"

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Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain-perhaps wheat or some other grain.

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But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.