1 Corinthians 15:29

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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?

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  • Matt 20:22 : 22 But Jesus answered and said, ‹Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?› They say unto him, We are able.
  • Rom 6:3-4 : 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
  • 1 Cor 15:16 : 16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

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