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29 Otherwise, what will those people do who get baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why do they even get baptized for them? 30 Why do we live in danger every hour? 31 Day by day I face death, as surely as I boast about you, brothers,[a] in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with human motives, what good did it do me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”[b] 33 Do not be deceived! “Keeping bad company corrupts good morals.”[c] 34 Use sober judgment, as is right, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:31 Some witnesses to the text omit brothers.
  2. 1 Corinthians 15:32 Isaiah 22:13
  3. 1 Corinthians 15:33 Ancient testimony ascribes this quotation sometimes to the playwright Menander (about 344–291 bc) and sometimes to the playwright Euripides (about 480–406 bc), but the relevant plays are no longer extant. Paul may have learned the quotation from popular culture.