²⁹ Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

²² But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.

³ Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

⁴ We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:

³² If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.