1 Corinthians 15:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹Else 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?

1 Corinthians 15:29 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:3-4
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? …
1 Corinthians 15:16
For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
Matthew 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.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

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Baptism Body Dead (people)Decision Hades Immortality John Life

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-34)

In this passage the apostle establishes the truth of the resurrection of the dead, the holy dead, the dead in Christ, I. On the resurrection of Christ. 1. Because he is indeed the first-fruits of those that slept, 1 Cor. 15:20. He has truly risen himself, and he has risen in this very quality and character, as the first-fruits of those who sleep in him. As he has assuredly risen, so in his resurre…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. Else--if there be no resurrection. what shall they do?--How wretched is their lot! they ... which are baptized for the dead--third person; a class distinct from that in which the apostle places himself, “we” (1Co 15:30); first person. Alford thinks there is an allusion to a practice at Corinth of baptizing a living person in behalf of a friend who died unbaptized; thus Paul, without giving the…