1 Corinthians 15:55

World English Bible (2000)

"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"

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  • Hos 13:14 : 14 I 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.
  • Ps 49:8-9 : 8 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough, 9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption. 10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish. 13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah. 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
  • Eccl 2:15-16 : 15 Then 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. 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
  • Eccl 3:19 : 19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There 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.
  • Eccl 9:5-6 : 5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
  • Acts 9:5 : 5 He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
  • Rom 5:14 : 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
  • Rev 20:13-14 : 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members. 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
  • Rev 9:10 : 10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

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    50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

    51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will 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 will 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 power of sin is the law.

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

    58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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    26The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

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    35But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

    36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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    18Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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    20But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

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    43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

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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 Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

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    12Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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    10but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

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    8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

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    5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

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    16For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.

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    10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

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    23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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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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    6In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

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    4My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.