Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

Amplified

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin [by which it brings death] is the law;

An Understandable Version

The [harmful] sting that causes [physical] death is sin [See Rom. 5:12]; and the power of sin [to do this] comes from the law. [See Rom. 8:2].

Anderson New Testament

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

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law.

Darby Translation

Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law;

Godbey New Testament

But the sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law.

John Wesley New Testament

But thanks be to God,

Julia Smith Translation

And the sting of death sin; and the power of sin the law.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin [is] the law.

Modern King James verseion

The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

Montgomery New Testament

Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

And the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

The Emphasized Bible

Now, the sting of death, is, sin, and, the power of sin, is, the law; -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;

Williams New Testament

Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

Worsley New Testament

the sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law:

Youngs Literal Translation

and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The sting
κέντρον 
Kentron 
Usage: 3

of death
θάνατος 
Thanatos 
Usage: 100

is sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

the strength
δύναμις 
Dunamis 
Usage: 95

of sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 15:56

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Images 1 Corinthians 15:56

Context Readings

Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body

55 O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains? 56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: 57 But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.



Cross References

Romans 4:15

For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

Proverbs 14:32

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

Genesis 3:17-19

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

John 8:21

Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

John 8:24

For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

Romans 3:19-20

Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

Romans 5:12-13

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

Romans 5:15

But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

Romans 5:17

For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:20

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

Romans 6:23

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 7:5-13

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

Galatians 3:10-13

For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

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