1 Corinthians 15:29
Otherwise, what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not? Why are they baptized for the dead?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
30And why also do we stand every hour in peril?
Cross References
Romans 6:3Or do ye not know, that we who are baptized into Jesus Messiah, are baptized into his death?
1 Corinthians 15:32If, as amongst men, I was cast to wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it profit 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 →