You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then *let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.*
Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.