How to read this page

An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

Graph View — tap the constellation icon in the top bar to see this page's connections as a web of light: gold points are passages, and the coloured threads are the connection types. Click any type in the graph's own legend to filter it in or out, and use the expand control for the full-screen night sky.

New to a term? The Glossary explains every abbreviation and term on the site in plain words.

Intertextuality Pair

1 Corinthians 15:32 → Isaiah 22:13

Allusion

Later text

1 Corinthians 15:32BSB

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."

Earlier text

Isaiah 22:13BSB

But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:01

Significance

Isaiah 22:13 condemns Jerusalem's response to impending judgment - instead of repenting, they feasted hedonistically. Paul applies this to argue that denying resurrection produces the same moral outcome: if death is final, ethics collapse into "eat, drink, be merry." The quotation establishes resurrection's ethical necessity - only if death is conquered does self-sacrifice for Christ make sense. This reveals Paul's integrated theology: doctrine and ethics are inseparable. Christian morality (self-denial, suffering for the gospel, sexual purity) depends on eschatological hope. Without resurrection, Christian ethics are irrational. The text also shows Paul's evangelistic concern: false teaching about resurrection destroys not only doctrine but also moral transformation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Contrast