1 Corinthians 15:55

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'O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?'

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  • Hos 13:14 : 14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hidden from my eyes.
  • Ps 49:8-9 : 8 For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever: 9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption. 10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.
  • Eccl 2:15-16 : 15 So I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me. And why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart, "This also is vanity." 16 For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.
  • Eccl 3:19 : 19 For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor does he have power in the day of death; and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
  • Eccl 9:5-6 : 5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing, nor have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
  • Acts 9:5 : 5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting: it is hard for you to kick against the goads.
  • Rom 5:14 : 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who was to come.
  • Rev 20:13-14 : 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 And Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 It shall consume the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall consume his strength. 14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
  • Rev 9:10 : 10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to harm men for five months.

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    50Now this I say, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

    51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

    52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

    53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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    56The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

    57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    58Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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    26The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

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    18Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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    20But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

    21For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.

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    42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption:

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    12So then, death works in us, but life in you.

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    14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hidden from my eyes.

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    10But is now revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

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    8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; and the reproach of His people He will take away from all the earth: for the LORD has spoken.

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    5For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?

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    16For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.

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    7For he who has died is freed from sin.

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    31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

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    22Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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    6And in those days men will seek death and will not find it, and will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

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    10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.