1 Corinthians 15:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?

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  • Matt 20:22 : 22 But Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said to him, We are able.
  • Rom 6:3-4 : 3 Do you not know that as 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, so that just as Christ was raised 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 do not rise, then Christ is not risen.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead do not rise? 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'

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    12Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

    13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen:

    14And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain.

    15Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise if in fact the dead do not rise.

    16For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.

    17And if Christ is not risen, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

    18Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

    19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most miserable.

    20But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

    21For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.

    22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

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    35But someone will say, 'How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?'

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    30And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?

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    3Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

    4Therefore, we are buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

    5For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

  • 1 Pet 4:5-6
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    5They shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

    6For this reason was the gospel preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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    32If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead do not rise? 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'

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    14For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died:

    15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

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    15Lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.

    16And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other.

    17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

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    11If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

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    42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption:

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    9For this reason Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

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    13But I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

    15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

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    13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

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    52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

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    28Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

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    44It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

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    8Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

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    19And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

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    10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    55'O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?'

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