1 Corinthians 15:55 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵⁵ O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁵ O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁵ O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? [Hos. 13:14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁵ O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

Common English Bible

⁵⁵ “Where is your victory, Death?” “Where is your sting, Death?” (

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁵ "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"

1 Corinthians 15:55 Cross References

Job 41:22

In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

Psalm 89:48

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Hosea 13:14

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

Luke 16:23

and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Acts 2:27

because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 9:5

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Romans 5:14

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Revelation 9:10

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.