1 Corinthians 15:55
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
In Context
56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Cross References
Job 18:13The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
Psalms 49:8For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
Ecclesiastes 2:15Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
Hosea 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
Acts 2:27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
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 →