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1 Corinthians 15:29

1 Corinthians 15:29 is verse 29 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

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King James Version

Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

World English Bible

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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1 Corinthians 15:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.

28 And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.

29 If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

30 And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

31 I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Corinthians 15:16

For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Romans 6:3

Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Romans 6:4

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

Matthew 20:22

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” the brothers answered.

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