1 Corinthians 15:29

American Standard Version (1901)

Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

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  • Matt 20:22 : 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.
  • Rom 6:3-4 : 3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
  • 1 Cor 15:16 : 16 For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

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    15Yea, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.

    16For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised:

    17and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

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    20But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.

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