1 Corinthians 15:29

Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are really not raised, why are they baptized for them?

Montgomery New Testament

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

28For when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself shall subject himself to Him who made them subject, that God may be all in all.

30Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?

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Cross References

Romans 6:3For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death?

1 Corinthians 15:32If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

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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