1 Corinthians 15:55
O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
In Context
56The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
Cross References
Job 18:13His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
Psalms 49:8\49:7\Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
Ecclesiastes 2:15Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 8:8No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Hosea 13:14I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
Acts 2:27For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 15:52-58
The Resurrection of Saints. ( a. d. 57.) 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the… Read the whole commentary →