Effects of Denying the Resurrection

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?

²² But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink ^(A)the cup that I am about to drink, ^[a]and be baptized with ^(B)the baptism that I am baptized with?”

They said to Him, “We are able.”

³² If, in the manner of men, ^(A)I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, ^(B)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

¹⁶ For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.

³ Or do you not know that ^(A)as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus ^(B)were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were ^(C)buried with Him through baptism into death, that ^(D)just as Christ was raised from the dead by ^(E)the glory of the Father, ^(F)even so we also should walk in newness of life.