As a way to prepare for Easter, I invite you to join me on a 58 day journey through the 58 verses of 1 Corinthians 15 in Greek. Below is a link to the video. Click here for the previous video on 1 Cor 15:28 and click here for the next video on 1 Cor 15:30.

1 Corinthians 15:29 Video

Below is a link to a PDF version of the PowerPoint used in the above video.

1 Corinthians 15:29 (PDF)

1 Corinthians 15:29

29 Ἐπεὶ τί ποιήσουσιν οἱ βαπτιζόμενοι ὑπὲρ τῶν νεκρῶν; εἰ ὅλως νεκροὶ οὐκ ἐγείρονται, τί καὶ βαπτίζονται ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν;

29 Otherwise, what will those who are being baptized accomplish for the sake of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are (those people) being baptized because of them?

Ἐπεὶ – conj. marking cause/reason with the sense of “otherwise.”

τί – interrog. pronoun functioning substv. [W345-46].

ποιήσουσιν – main verb [fut-act-ind-3-p-ποιέω].

οἱ βαπτιζόμενοι – nom. subj. [pres-pass-ptc-masc-pl-nom-βαπτίζω]. Art-adj-substv-ptc [W619-21].

ὑπὲρ τῶν νεκρῶν; – prep. phrase. See BDAG 1.c. Expresses benefit, interest, cause, or reason. Functions adv. more so than adj.

εἰ – cond. conj. marking a first class condition [W690-94].

ὅλως – adv. of ὅλος marking the “highest degree on a scale of extent” (BDAG 1.).

νεκροὶ – nom. subj. of the cond. sub. clause. Monadic absence of the art. [W248-49].

οὐκ – neg. adv.

ἐγείρονται, – verb of cond. sub. clause [pres-pass-ind-3-p-εγείρω].

τί – interrog. pronoun functioning adverbially (“why?”) [W345-46].

καὶ – conj. that could mark the apodosis (“then”) or express emphasis (“indeed”).

βαπτίζονται – subj. and main verb [pres-pass-ind-3-pl-βαπτίζω].

ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν; – prep. phrase. Expresses cause or reason according to BDAG (1.c.). Functions adv. more so than adj.