1 Corinthians 15:29
Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?
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- Matt 20:22 : 22 Jesus answered,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him,“We are able.”
- Rom 6:3-4 : 3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.
- 1 Cor 15:16 : 16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
- 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
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12 No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
15 Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that he raised Christ from the dead, when in reality he did not raise him, if indeed the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
19 For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.
22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
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35 The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
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30 Why too are we in danger every hour?
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3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.
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5 They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.
6 Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.
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32 If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
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14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
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15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name!
16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanus. Otherwise, I do not remember whether I baptized anyone else.)
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.
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11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
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9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
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13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.
15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.
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13 Is Christ divided? Paul wasn’t crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?
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52 in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
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11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.
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31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,
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44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
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8 Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?
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13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.
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4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,
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21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you– not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God– through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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19 If they were all the same member, where would the body be?
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16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
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10 He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.
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55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
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35 and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.