1 Corinthians 15:29

If it be not so, what are they doing, who are baptized for the dead? If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for them?

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In The King James Version

Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

In Context

28And when all things have been put under him, then will also the Son himself become subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

30Why also do we stand in peril every hour?

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Cross References

Romans 6:3Are ye ignorant, that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?

1 Corinthians 15:32If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, “let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:21-35

The Resurrection of Christ; The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he… Read the whole commentary →

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