Verse 29
Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?
Referenced Verses
- Matt 20:22 : 22 But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
- Rom 6:3-4 : 3 Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death? 4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
- 1 Cor 15:16 : 16 For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:
- 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.