1 Corinthians 15:29 Catholic Bible: Now, what about those people who are baptized for the dead? What do they hope to accomplish? If it is true, as some claim, that the dead are not raised to life, why are those people being baptized for the dead?

Good News Translation
Now, what about those people who are baptized for the dead? What do they hope to accomplish? If it is true, as some claim, that the dead are not raised to life, why are those people being baptized for the dead?

New Revised Standard Version
Otherwise, what will those people do who receive baptism on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?

Contemporary English Version
If the dead are not going to be raised to life, what will people do who are being baptized for them? Why are they being baptized for those dead people?

New American Bible
Otherwise, what will people accomplish by having themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they having themselves baptized for them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

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1 Corinthians 15:16,32 For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again. . . .

Romans 6:3,4 Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death? . . .

Matthew 20:22 And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.