1 Corinthians 15:29
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?
KJV
Ἐπεὶ τί ποιήσουσιν οἱ βαπτιζόμενοι ὑπὲρ τῶν νεκρῶν; εἰ ὅλως νεκροὶ οὐκ ἐγείρονται, τί καὶ βαπτίζονται ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν;
Greek NT
Alioquin quid facient qui baptizantur pro mortuis, si omnino mortui non resurgunt ? ut quid et baptizantur pro illis ?
Vulgate
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?
ASV
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?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- αὐτῶν — SBLGNT
- αὐτῶν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τῶν νεκρῶν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? Do you see how excellently he reasons, and proves the resurrection from the fact of Christ's being raised, having first established the former in many ways? For both the prophets spoke of it, says he, and the Lord Himself showed it by His appeari…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:16 — For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
- John 11:25 — Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
- Matt 20:22 — But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able
- Matt 28:19 — Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
- Rom 6:3 — Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
- Rom 6:3 — Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?