Bible verse
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?
1 Corinthians 15:29 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 15.
25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
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.
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.”
33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
KJV
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?
ASV
Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
ERV
Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
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