Book of Common Prayer

³⁰ Yea, and why do we stand in danger every hour? ³¹ As sure as our confidence which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I am dying day by day. ³² That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, after the manner of men, what does it gain me if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!

³³ Be not deceived: unwholesome talk corrupts good ways. ³⁴ Awake truly out of sleep, and do not sin. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your reproach.

³⁵ But someone will say, How do the dead arise? With what bodies do they come in? ³⁶ Foolish one, that which you sow is not quickened to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what do you sow? You sow not the body that will be, but bare seed (I mean, of wheat or something else), ³⁸ and God gives it a body at his pleasure – to every seed a particular body.

³⁹ All flesh is not of the same kind, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another kind of flesh of animals, another kind of flesh of fishes, and another of birds. 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. ⁴¹ There is one kind of glory of the sun and another glory of the moon – and another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another in glory.

¹⁶ But to what can I liken this generation? It is like children who sit in the market and call to their fellows, ¹⁷ and say, We have piped to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not sorrowed. ¹⁸ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say he has the devil. ¹⁹ The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Here is a glutton and drinker of wine, and a friend of publicans and sinners! Nevertheless, wisdom is justified by her children.

²⁰ Then Jesus began to upbraid the places in which most of his miracles had been done, because they did not turn: ²¹ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were shown in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ²² But I say to you, it will be easier for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And you Capernaum, who are lifted up to heaven, shall be brought down to hell. For if the miracles which have been done in you had been shown in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. ²⁴ But I say to you, it will be easier for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.