Verse 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?

Referenced Verses

• 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.