1 Corinthians 15:55

World English Bible

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

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1 Corinthians 15:55 in other translations

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

1 Corinthians 15:55 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 15:55 in context

  1. 53For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
  2. 54But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
  3. 55“Death, where is your sting?
    Hades, where is your victory?”
  4. 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
  5. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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