1 Corinthians 15:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁹ Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ Otherwise, what do people mean by being [themselves] baptized in behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ 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?

Common English Bible

²⁹ Otherwise, what are those who are getting baptized for the dead doing? If the dead aren’t raised, then why are they being baptized for them?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Otherwise, what will those who are being baptized for the dead do, if the dead do not rise again at all? Why then are they being baptized for them?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? why are they then baptized for them?

1 Corinthians 15:29 Cross References

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Matthew 3:6

and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

1 Corinthians 15:16

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

1 Corinthians 15:28

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one.

1 Corinthians 15:30

Why am I in peril every hour?

1 Corinthians 15:32

What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”