1 Corinthians 15:55
O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 firstborn death consume his arms.
Psalms 49:8No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
Ecclesiastes 2:15And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 8:8It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.
Hosea 13:14I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.
Acts 2:27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer thy 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 →