1 Corinthians 15:55
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
In Context
56Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Cross References
Job 18:13Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.
Psalms 49:8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
Ecclesiastes 2:15And I said in my heart: “If the death of both the foolish and myself will be one, how does it benefit me, if I have given myself more thoroughly to the work of wisdom?” And as I was speaking within my own mind, I perceived that this, too, is emptiness.
Ecclesiastes 8:8It is not in the power of a man to prohibit the spirit, nor does he have authority over the day of death, nor is he permitted to rest when war breaks out, and neither will impiety save the impious.
Hosea 13:14I will free them from the hand of death; from death I will redeem them. Death, I will be your death. Hell, I will be your deadly wound. Consolation is hidden from my eyes.
Acts 2:27For you will not abandon my soul to Hell, nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.
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 →