1 Corinthians 15:29

World English Bible (2000)

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

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  • Matt 20:22 : 22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."
  • Rom 6:3-4 : 3 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like 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 aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

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