1 Corinthians 15:32 meaning and explanation
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
1 Corinthians 15:32, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul is writing to the Corinthian church, defending the reality of bodily resurrection against some who denied it. Here he argues from his own experience: if he faced literal wild beasts at Ephesus, or fierce opposition described that way, for merely human reasons, it gained him nothing.
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