32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, ^e“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

8 But I will stay in Ephesus until ^pPentecost, 9 for a ^qwide door for effective work has opened to me, and ^rthere are many adversaries.

8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,¹ of ^kthe affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.