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1 Corinthians · Chapter 15

1 Corinthians 15:55

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

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Before · 1 Corinthians 15:53–54

53For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 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.”

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

After · 1 Corinthians 15:56–57

56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Read all of 1 Corinthians 15 (58 verses)

Notes and cross references in the WEB

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  • Cross referenceSee Hosea 13:14

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