1 Corinthians 15:32

Bible in Basic English 1965

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

Cross References

Job 35:3

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

Psalm 73:13

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

Isaiah 22:13

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

Isaiah 56:12

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

Luke 9:25

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

Acts 18:19

And they came down to Ephesus and he left them there: and he himself went into the Synagogue and had a discussion with the Jews.

Acts 18:21

And went from them, saying, I will come back to you if God lets me; and he took ship from Ephesus.

Acts 19:1

And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:

Romans 3:5

But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry as men may say?

Romans 6:19

I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

1 Corinthians 16:8

But I will be at Ephesus till Pentecost;

Galatians 3:15

Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

Jude 1:10

But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.