1 Corinthians 15:29

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?

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  • Matt 20:22 : 22 And Jesus answering said, `Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, `We are able.'
  • Rom 6:3-4 : 3 are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized? 4 we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
  • 1 Cor 15:16 : 16 for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,
  • 1 Cor 15:32 : 32 if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

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    12And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

    13and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;

    14and if Christ hath not risen, then void `is' our preaching, and void also your faith,

    15and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

    16for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,

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

    18then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

    19if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

    20And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

    21for since through man `is' the death, also through man `is' a rising again of the dead,

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    35But some one will say, `How do the dead rise?

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    30why also do we stand in peril every hour?

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    3are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

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    5For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, `so' also we shall be of the rising again;

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    5who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,

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    32if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

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    15that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

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