1 Corinthians 15:55

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

'Death has been swallowed up in victory! Where, O Death, is thy victory? Where, O Death, is thy sting?'

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In the Place of Death he looked up in his torment, and saw Abraham at a distance and Lazarus at his side.

For you wilt not abandon my soul to the Place of Death, nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.

"Who are you, Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," the voice answered;

Yet, from Adam to Moses, Death reigned even over those whose sin was not a breach of a law, as Adam's was. And Adam foreshadows the One to come.

It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.

They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and in their tails lies their power to harm men for five months.