1 Corinthians 15:56

A Conservative Version

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Cross References

Romans 4:15

For the law works wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 6:23

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

John 8:24

I said therefore to you that ye will die in your sins. For unless ye believe that I am he, ye will die in your sins.

Romans 5:20

And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

John 8:21

Jesus therefore again said to them, I go, and ye will seek me, and ye will die in your sin. Where I go, ye cannot come.

Romans 5:17

For if, by the offense of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

Romans 5:15

But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many.

Proverbs 14:32

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.