1 Corinthians 15:55 ““Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?””

1 Corinthians 15:55

“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

World English Bible

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

American Standard Version

O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

Geneva Bible 1599

O death where is thy sting? O graue where is thy victorie?

Darby Translation

Where, O death, [is] thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?

Young's Literal Translation

where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'

Bible in Basic English

O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

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Cross references

“O death”

Hosea 13:14

Hosea 13:14 · BSB

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

“sting”

Acts 9:5 Revelation 9:10

Acts 9:5 · BSB

“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.

Revelation 9:10 · BSB

They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.

“grave”

Acts 2:27 Luke 16:23 Revelation 20:13 Revelation 20:14

Acts 2:27 · BSB

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Luke 16:23 · BSB

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.

Revelation 20:13 · BSB

The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

Revelation 20:14 · BSB

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.

“is thy victory”

Psalm 89:48 Romans 5:14 Psalm 49:8–15 Ecclesiastes 8:8 Ecclesiastes 3:19 Job 18:13

Psalm 89:48 · BSB

What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Romans 5:14 · BSB

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

Psalm 49:8–15 · BSB

For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,

Ecclesiastes 8:8 · BSB

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 · BSB

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Job 18:13 · BSB

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

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