"If Christ has not been
raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain" (1
Corinthians 15:14). "If only for this life we have hope in Christ,
we are to be pitied more than all men" (1 Corinthians 15:19). "But
Christ has indeed been raised from the dead" (1 Corinthians
15:20).
"Therefore, I urge you,
brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of
worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be
able to test and approve...